I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself. — Warsan Shire
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind. — John Cheever
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. — Henry Rollins
Short Lonely Heart Quotes
Look after my heart - I've left it with you. — Stephenie Meyer
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely. — Richard Linklater
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. — Plato
A heart makes a good home for the friend. — Yunus Emre
This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul. — Sayings
Your mouth is a lonely place but I keep coming back. — Warsan Shire
You're the only one and only
My heart's beating for
I love you, need I say more — George Strait
All great and precious things are lonely. — John Steinbeck
Loneliness breaks the spirit. — Yiddish Proverbs
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends. — Hafez
Lonely Heart Image Quotes
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Quotes
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson Mccullers
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
We are homesick most for the places we have never known. — Carson Mccullers
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind? — Carson Mccullers
Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. — Carson Mccullers
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated. — Carson Mccullers
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them. — Carson Mccullers
I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart — Madonna Ciccone
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone. — Carson Mccullers
Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Quotes
I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands. — Carson Mccullers
All we can do is go around telling the truth. — Carson Mccullers
Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today. — Carson Mccullers
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished. — Carson Mccullers
My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill. — William Sharp
Lonely Quotes
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places. — Fridtjof Nansen
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyways.
Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone. — Leonard Ravenhill
I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it. — Kristen Bell
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom. — Omar Khayyam
Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves. — Simon Bolivar
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. — William Wordsworth
You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found. — Kid Cudi
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Lonely Person Quotes
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned. — Clarence Darrow
I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone. — Ernest Hemingway
If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work. — Mother Teresa
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely. — Ann Landers
Often, we think of change as raising a million dollars or helping 100,000 people. But true change, real change could be just calling one person who you know is lonely every single day. — Jay Shetty
You have to go whole heartedly in anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans. — Clayton Moore
Be the kind of person you would like to be with. Some people come into our lives, make footprints on our hearts and we are never the same. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. — Joseph Fort Newton
...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic. — Sonja Lyubomirsky
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. — Tennessee Williams
Lonely Man Quotes
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness. — Henryk Sienkiewicz
It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress. — John Forbes Nash
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. — Jules Verne
If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, than you're a badass with a heart of an angel.
Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. — Abe Fortas
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save. — Isaac Asimov
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. — Christopher Morley
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a pretty soul.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams
There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself. — Abraham Ibn Esra
Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder. — O. J. Simpson
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. — Henry David Thoreau
Lonely World Quotes
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems. — Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination. — Mary Oliver
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. — Dale Carnegie
If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. — Martha Beck
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seen important to you.
Many people in this world are lonely, are struggling, and just need to be heard, to know their life matters. It does. You're beautiful. I meet folks, see the pain in their eyes & realize we're the same. Everybody, we're all lost, a little or a lot. But we're all lost together. — Lex Fridman
The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on. — Robert W. Service
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Reality is neutral. Our reactions reflect back and create our world. Judge, and feel separate and lonely. Anger, and lose peace of mind. Cling, and live in anxiety. Fantasize, and miss the present. Desire, and suffer until you have it. Heaven and hell are right here, right now. — Naval Ravikant
Feeling Lonely Quotes
Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin — Janis Joplin
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. — Anne Frank
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. — Mother Teresa
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift. — Yul Brynner
I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. — Douglas Coupland
It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you. — Frederic Chopin
Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it. — Robert Plant
I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things. — Robert Plant
Lonely Women Quotes
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. — Maya Angelou
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet. — Abraham Lincoln
My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil. — Maxine Hong Kingston
Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude. — Sarah Mahoney
I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father. — Joanna Noelle Levesque
Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well. — Renee Jones
According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon. — Tina Fey
There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us. — Kristen Bell
I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve. — Elvis Presley
Loneliness Quotes
Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you. — Johnny Cash
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community. — Dorothy Day
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. — Albert Einstein
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. — Chief Seattle
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. — Mother Teresa
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. — Carl Jung
My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude. — Warsan Shire
I Am Lonely Quotes
I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice. — Mahathir Mohamad
I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word. — Billy Graham
I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart. — Albert Einstein
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. — Henry Rollins
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur C. Clarke
I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone. — Delta Burke
In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me. — Van Morrison
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. — Charlotte Bronte
Just because I am alone, does not mean I am lonely. I am not you. — Tsugumi Ohba
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? — Judy Garland
The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.' — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you. — Lisa Page Brooks
We can never untangle all the woes in other people's lives. We can't produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart. — Barbara Johnson
I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds. — Bela Lugosi
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. — John Milton
May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone. — Dan Wells
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire
Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best. — Andrea Gibson
Fall in love when you are ready, not when you’re lonely. — Simon Nessman
How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith
When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most. — Ronald Anthony Cross
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California — Joaquin Miller
A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart. — Pearl S. Buck
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. — Lois Lowry
Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other people do. Yet, we cannot live apart from each other in bowers feeding on nectar. We're in this together, this getting through our lives, as the fact that we are word-users shows. — Nuala O'Faolain
Don't let ignorance blind you. Open your eyes, heart and your mind. And if you're feeling alone, know that the world can be a lonely place, but it would be lonelier without you in it. — Hayley Williams
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. — Tom Wolfe
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat
Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast,
Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest. — William Butler Yeats
I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time. — Lawren Harris
We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have slept together in A lonely bed. Now my heart Turns toward you, awake at last, Penitent, lost in the last Loneliness. Speak to me. Talk To me. Break the black silence. — Kenneth Rexroth
If you came to see the truth, the purity, it's here inside a lonely heart. — Michael Jackson
Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. But lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it. — Tanya Davis
I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears — Timothy Keller
The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart. — Josiah Royce
My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom of the stars. My songs are lost in their depths. Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity. Let me but cleave its clouds and spread wings in its sunshine. — Rabindranath Tagore
Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon. — Johnny Mercer
What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead. — Carson Mccullers
Let's face it songs are about love, which is, I love you, I don't love you, come here, go away, I miss you, I don't miss you. I'm lonely. I'm not lonely. It's, it's all about affairs of the heart. And we can all relate to those. — Jeff Barry
The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away. — William Butler Yeats
And the more you spend in blessing
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to you glad. — John Greenleaf Whittier
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