Top 100 Only The Lonely Quotes

#1. And yet we couldn't leave
it was if the rocks were holding us there. I mean, they were only rocks. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good.

Cynthia Kadohata

Only The Lonely Quotes #5622
#2. If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
Crying to the moo-oo-oon,
"If only, If only.

Louis Sachar

Only The Lonely Quotes #5811
#3. Once there was a moose, a very poor, thin, lonely moose who lived on a rocky hill where only bitter leaves grew and bushes with spiky branches. One day a red motor car drove past. In the backseat was
a grey gypsy dog wearing a gold earring.

Annie Proulx

Only The Lonely Quotes #6977
#4. The invigorating scent of the sea was nectar to her wearied body, the immensity of the lonely cliffs was silent and dreamlike. Her brain only remained conscious of its ceaseless, its intolerable torture of uncertainty.

Emmuska Orczy

Only The Lonely Quotes #9773
#5. It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist, if only because the creative process is such a lonely one. I should imagine it must be all the more difficult for a woman.

Richard Yates

Only The Lonely Quotes #9993
#6. Maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.

Babs Deal

Only The Lonely Quotes #20726
#7. Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. It did the same thing that playing the piano had done when he was frightened and lonely. It took him into another world where only beauty existed and where he was sage from hatred and disappointment and death.

Nancy Farmer

Only The Lonely Quotes #39704
#8. There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

Ashay Abbhi

Only The Lonely Quotes #55851
#9. One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.

Dan Pearce

Only The Lonely Quotes #60657
#10. People are so lonely, they spend their birthdays on the Internet, thanking people for wishing them a happy birthday, people who only know it's their birthday because Facebook told them.

Caroline Kepnes

Only The Lonely Quotes #68778
#11. Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said.

Sarah Dessen

Only The Lonely Quotes #71247
#12. I was lost, starving for intimacy, desperate to be valued, swallowed by a sea of lonely hearts, thinking that perhaps I was the only one who was lost.

Ted Dekker

Only The Lonely Quotes #75600
#13. Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage.

Leslye Walton

Only The Lonely Quotes #88572
#14. If love was only for the perfect, what a sad and lonely world it would it be. We are the culmination of every good and bad choice we've ever made. Your mistakes have made you into an incredibly fierce and loving woman; one I am

Ruth Cardello

Only The Lonely Quotes #135315
#15. Here is the story of how I died. I wish it were a glamorous story; sadly, there was little glamour in my death. The end for everyone is much the same, sad, lonely, and cold. Only, most people don't wake up again, I did. And I was hungry, so bloody hungry.

L.A. Kennedy

Only The Lonely Quotes #136488
#16. El, you are telling me to run away with a man to become his mistress."
"I am telling you to be happy. Even if it lasts only a little while. We must snatch what we can when we have the chance. Life is so very lonely when we don't.

Jennifer Ashley

Only The Lonely Quotes #139728
#17. It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

William James

Only The Lonely Quotes #159084
#18. The only store where visitors can officially buy alcohol without a licence is at the Barracuda Beach Resort

Lonely Planet

Only The Lonely Quotes #171899
#19. You're not the only one's been lonely, Emme, hoping the right one will come along so you don't go home to an empty house and climb into an empty bed.

Kristen Ashley

Only The Lonely Quotes #174818
#20. Simon Cameron: I loved my brother, as only the poor and lonely can love those with whom they have toiled and struggled up the rugged hill of life's success - but he died bravely in the discharge of his duty.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Only The Lonely Quotes #188596
#21. Writing is a lonely pursuit. The only thing working is imagination and hands.
The only difference between writing and masturbation is one is presumably intended for a mass audience.

Mark Bell

Only The Lonely Quotes #197172
#22. An endless scream pierced the frigid night air and shook the world with its rage and sorrow. The aged stone and brick that had withstood the great quake over a hundred years ago now trembled before its pain, and even the austere grimace of the lonely grotesque, its only witness, softened in pity.

Ava Zavora

Only The Lonely Quotes #201803
#23. Leave me to die a lonely death.
An artist's death.
A writer's playground.
A painter's background.
A philosopher's bread and butter.
An endeavor that we
all face. I just hope that
I'm not the only one
there.

A.P. Sweet

Only The Lonely Quotes #207562
#24. You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you're not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don't know anything about them at all.

Jonathan Tropper

Only The Lonely Quotes #208849
#25. When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

Banana Yoshimoto

Only The Lonely Quotes #210471
#26. What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have.

Charlotte Eriksson

Only The Lonely Quotes #237087
#27. 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.

Kim Edwards

Only The Lonely Quotes #240866
#28. It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

Henry Louis Gates

Only The Lonely Quotes #266452
#29. It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.

Mizu Sahara

Only The Lonely Quotes #286417
#30. Until then we're going to keep making memories like this, moments when we're the only two people in the whole world. And when we get scared or lonely or confused, we'll pull out these memories and wrap them around us and they'll make us feel safe. And strong.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Only The Lonely Quotes #306466
#31. Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

Ray Bradbury

Only The Lonely Quotes #323526
#32. The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I felt lonely and out of place. Writing for me became my private place, where no one could come.

Jean Fritz

Only The Lonely Quotes #333720
#33. I'm letting go of all my lonely yesterdays, I've forgiven myself for the mistakes I've made, now there's just one thing, the only thing I wanna do. I wanna love somebody, love somebody like you.

Keith Urban

Only The Lonely Quotes #338244
#34. The incident had that rich savor of the ludicrous which neither pity nor charity can destroy. Unfortunately, she could not in decency share it with anybody; she could only enjoy it in lonely ecstasies of mirth.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Only The Lonely Quotes #379974
#35. Then wine me, dine me and sixty-nine me," she growled. "Feel free to reverse the order.

Susan Gabriel

Only The Lonely Quotes #381835
#36. Not only the lonely lonely.

Boris Zubry

Only The Lonely Quotes #405846
#37. The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire ... driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!

Carson McCullers

Only The Lonely Quotes #410620
#38. When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives; we also experience less of a soothing uplift from the positives.

John T. Cacioppo

Only The Lonely Quotes #419633
#39. Only the lonely, who can teach us, to not ambiguous.

Emha Ainun Nadjib

Only The Lonely Quotes #441193
#40. The difference between lonely and lovely is only of one single alphabet. That single alphabet is called Friends.

Sarvesh Jain

Only The Lonely Quotes #449635
#41. Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

James Thurber

Only The Lonely Quotes #467601
#42. Murder me with bombs you poor lonely sod I will only build myself again and stronger. I am too stupid to know better I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself.

Chris Cleave

Only The Lonely Quotes #470350
#43. They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Kelly Osbourne

Only The Lonely Quotes #486165
#44. They don't know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness inside of me and turns into love and light.

Tara Brown

Only The Lonely Quotes #499631
#45. The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Only The Lonely Quotes #501000
#46. Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.

Sabah Carrim

Only The Lonely Quotes #504166
#47. I'm quite happy trekking around Greenland on my own, but those big book tours in America or the Far East are the only time I ever really feel lonely.

Michelle Paver

Only The Lonely Quotes #537803
#48. The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

George MacDonald

Only The Lonely Quotes #542564
#49. It was possible to be homesick for a time, and to be lonely for the only other person who could recall it.

Robin Hobb

Only The Lonely Quotes #552541
#50. The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Lilith Saintcrow

Only The Lonely Quotes #558424
#51. I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

Paul McCartney

Only The Lonely Quotes #560724
#52. You are not alone if you are lonely,
When you feel afraid, you're not the only.

Matt Maher

Only The Lonely Quotes #571926
#53. So young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away.

Kim Edwards

Only The Lonely Quotes #584091
#54. Ruth had come so far and lived so lonely only to learn that she was the daughter of a rapist and a murderer. She was half-sister to a smug fool who would probably have used Phoebe as ill as his father, had he been given the chance.

Anita Diamant

Only The Lonely Quotes #599581
#55. It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.

Harvey MacKay

Only The Lonely Quotes #625896
#56. Not only two years, but even until twenty, two hundred, two thousand yearswe always have to be together.""because I have the members, I have never felt lonely.

Yoochun

Only The Lonely Quotes #627247
#57. There it sat, perfect as a fresh-laid egg on the dead sea bottom, the only nucleus of light and warmth in hundreds of miles of lonely wasteland. It was like a heart beating alone in a great dark body. He felt almost sorrowful with pride, gazing at it with wet eyes.

Ray Bradbury

Only The Lonely Quotes #638905
#58. Someone had to laugh, and I was pretty much the only one who got me. It was a lonely life.

Darynda Jones

Only The Lonely Quotes #643413
#59. The class's favorite
book was Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading. In this novel, Nabokov differentiates
Cincinnatus C., his imaginative and lonely hero, from those around him through his
originality in a society where uniformity is not only the norm but also the law.

Azar Nafisi

Only The Lonely Quotes #649886
#60. He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many great friends, and by all accounts was a good, generous and loyal friend. But there were a lot of people who wanted only a piece of him.

Jane Leavy

Only The Lonely Quotes #667476
#61. You should stay and keep me company, so I don't get lonely."

"You don't seem like the type of guy who gets lonely."

"Is that a compliment or an insult?"

Analia only shrugged.

Kiersten Fay

Only The Lonely Quotes #671830
#62. We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us less lonely. But we are at risk because it is actually the reverse: If we are unable to be alone, we will be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely. Yet

Sherry Turkle

Only The Lonely Quotes #694173
#63. It was a lonely place. A place for the dark-hearted. It's where I deserve to be, Maleficent told herself every time she arrived. For only someone with a heart as dark as mine could do something so evil to a girl with a heart as light as Aurora's.

Elizabeth Rudnick

Only The Lonely Quotes #703226
#64. A lonely human we think is lonely.
Freakin thoughts surround it.
A lonely bird we think is lonely.
Damn! Did you see!
The giant nature around it.
Disrespectful of nature if we be,
lonely are only we.

Chetan M. Kumbhar

Only The Lonely Quotes #717233
#65. Never had he seen a man who looked so lonely, so far from the run of human life with its fellowship and warmth. To see him here, in this place of fiesta, only underlined the truth of him: he was the last. There was no other.

Stephen King

Only The Lonely Quotes #719067
#66. A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

Bernard Malamud

Only The Lonely Quotes #721023
#67. We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.

Orson Scott Card

Only The Lonely Quotes #743856
#68. From midnight to 4: 00 AM is the loneliest time in the world. Because for those of us too sad to sleep, the only thing we have to look at is an empty bed, and the only thing we have to think of is every single person who didn't want to fill it tonight.

Lone Alaskan Gypsy

Only The Lonely Quotes #761472
#69. I could say it was the nights when I was lonely
and you were the only one who'd talk.
I could tell you that I like your sensitivity,
when you know it's the way that you walk.

Elvis Costello

Only The Lonely Quotes #765022
#70. Ultimately there are only two important epistemological questions in philosophy: What is reality? What is man? And the answer can be collapsed into one: The reality is that man is terribly lonely.

Ben Mijuskovic

Only The Lonely Quotes #784978
#71. And spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a glowing truth that only six or seven people will ever care about.

Anonymous

Only The Lonely Quotes #785592
#72. But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.

Edgar Allan Poe

Only The Lonely Quotes #791489
#73. There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Abraham Ibn Ezra

Only The Lonely Quotes #802185
#74. I am alone, as though I stood On the highest peak of the tired gray world,About me only swirling snow, Above me, endless space unfurled;With earth hidden and heaven hidden, And only my own spirit's prideTo keep me from the peace of those Who are not lonely, having died.

Sara Teasdale

Only The Lonely Quotes #824896
#75. Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

Roy Orbison

Only The Lonely Quotes #858612
#76. For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

Mary McCarthy

Only The Lonely Quotes #916319
#77. Outwardly I was all confidence and openness; inwardly I was spiteful and lonely and unaware of how to relate to the world. I wanted so much to be good but only knew how to appear that way by being bad.

M.E. Thomas

Only The Lonely Quotes #928368
#78. In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Walker Percy

Only The Lonely Quotes #944207
#79. Because you were the only girl I'd ever met that was as deeply caring and as fucking lonely as me. If anyone was going to fill my heart, it was you. Only you.

Krista Ritchie

Only The Lonely Quotes #960257
#80. Alene looked out toward the fading sky. There was only a little light remaining. It would turn nighttime now and soon they would return to the house. I would be too cool to sit outside. It would get dark out. I'm so lonely, she said. I had my chance and I lost it.

Kent Haruf

Only The Lonely Quotes #980563
#81. Sleep, sleep, my love, my only, Deep, deep, in the dung and the dark; Be not afraid and be not lonely! This

E.B. White

Only The Lonely Quotes #981366
#82. Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

Harriet Lerner

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#83. They're only trees. Only trees. Whose afraid of lonely trees?

Ruth Frances Long

Only The Lonely Quotes #984296
#84. I drifted off after a while, staring at the only star visible through the thick covering of leaves. Hope seemed a futile wish, but I troubled the lonely star to grant it anyway.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Only The Lonely Quotes #986026
#85. I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Kate Bush

Only The Lonely Quotes #1003426
#86. He's only slept with us when he's cold and lonely."
"Isaboe, he is a hound. He will feign loneliness the rest of his life just to lie on this bed,. My bed. I was the king of this bed.

Melina Marchetta

Only The Lonely Quotes #1010422
#87. Depression is not madness, it's just depression, the loser version, the low-energy response to bad stuff that happens in your life. When you're depressed, you think you're the only one to have ever tasted this kind of hurt. And that lonely self-regard brings with it its own painful pleasure.

Ana Menendez

Only The Lonely Quotes #1025303
#88. If I could tell you only one thing. My message would be this: The world would be a lonely place if you did not exist.

Erin Hanson

Only The Lonely Quotes #1042178
#89. Death is the opposite of lonely, and lonely is the only thing the janitor owns. It is the only thing that's hers. And that makes loneliness beautiful, out here among the cold and bright beginnings.

Amber Sparks

Only The Lonely Quotes #1045540
#90. I don't mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you're always alone, you get lonely.

Colleen Houck

Only The Lonely Quotes #1058345
#91. Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

Elizabeth Bowen

Only The Lonely Quotes #1062283
#92. I can only end up with one, and I must leave many lonely by the wayside. So that is all for now. Perhaps someday someone will leave me by the wayside. And that will be poetic justice.

Sylvia Plath

Only The Lonely Quotes #1069359
#93. Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

Umberto Eco

Only The Lonely Quotes #1069704
#94. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

Samuel Hoffenstein

Only The Lonely Quotes #1078989
#95. If I'm my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Only The Lonely Quotes #1084735
#96. I see a man who wants the world to think he has everything but is actually very lonely. You have a wild side, but you don't want that life anymore. I think you're on a journey to discover who you are, just like me, only you're more afraid of change than I am." Mason

Ruth Cardello

Only The Lonely Quotes #1087795
#97. Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I'm not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.

Lone Alaskan Gypsy

Only The Lonely Quotes #1119019
#98. There's a part of everyone that needs to be taken care of. Denying it exists doesn't change the truth, it only makes you very lonely.

Katherine Allred

Only The Lonely Quotes #1159095
#99. At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.

Yani Tseng

Only The Lonely Quotes #1163779
#100. Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

Stephen King

Only The Lonely Quotes #1172823

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