1,377 Quotes About Lonely

  • Author Delmore Schwartz
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    O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.

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  • Author Diane Sawyer
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    Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.

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  • Author Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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    Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely forest, on the highway, or in the streets of the metropolis on a dark night, she sometimes needs, too, the protection of all men against this one.

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  • Author Elizabeth Strout
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    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.

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  • Author Henryk Sienkiewicz
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    The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

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  • Author Jim Steinman
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    Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

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