Lonely People Quotes

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  • Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

    Lonely   People   Kind  
  • There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends cos I'm too content being by myself.

    "Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.
  • Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

  • You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

    "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.
  • Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.

    Lonely   Night   People  
    Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.154, Macmillan
  • New York is tough on lonely people.

  • Oh that's lovely," said Bunny. "Olive, you've got a date." "Why would you say something so foolish?" Olive asked, really annoyed. "We're two lonely people having supper." "Exactly," said Bunny. "That's a date.

    Lonely   Two   People  
    Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.259, Random House
  • So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

  • When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

    Lonely   Rain   Fall  
  • Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.

    Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books
  • I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart.

    Lonely   War   Moving  
  • All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

    Song: Eleanor Rigby
  • ...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

    Lonely   Confused   Taken  
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.172, Penguin
  • It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.

    Lonely   Sleep   People  
    Louis Theroux (2009). “The Call of the Weird: Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner”, p.30, Da Capo Press
  • Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

    David Foster Wallace (2012). “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, p.21, Hachette UK
  • My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.

    Lonely   Strong   Jobs  
  • I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

  • Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

  • For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

    Lonely   Rain   People  
  • That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

    Lonely   People   Life Is  
    Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.162, Penguin
  • Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

  • Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

    Lonely   People   Company  
  • It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

    Lonely   Vanity   People  
  • Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

    Lonely   People   Flow  
    "City Aphorisms: First Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.
  • The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.

    Lonely   Self   People  
    Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
  • Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

    Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster
  • What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books
  • Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

    Lillian Hellman (1952). “The Autumn Garden: Play in Three Acts”, p.35, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.

    Lonely   Night   People  
    Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.148, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.

    Lonely   Cake   Talking  
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