Lonely Quotes
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When you dance,Do your senses tingle?Then take a chance?In a trance,While the lonely mingleWith circumstance?
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There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e’s, the flying buttresses of d’s, the t’s like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.
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I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?
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He was proud, like all lonely men. Lonely men must be proud or die.
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Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
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It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
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Writing is a lonely profession.
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New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.
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Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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A person cries out against life because it's lonely, and because life's broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it, too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have - but very painful to the lips.
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Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor - Washington's most sought-after bachelor.
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Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.
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To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.
Chad Hurley -
What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
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At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
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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.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man - public opinion.
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I remembered Elizabeth had never laughed once during our talk. I feel that she hasn't learned how. The great house is so still and lonely and laughterless. It looks dull and gloomy even now when the world is a riot of autumn color. Little Elizabeth is doing too much listening to lost whispers.
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Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.
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The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
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Success can be as simple as the warm feeling you get when you smile at a stranger, someone you know must be lonely, and having that stranger return your smile. It can be the bringing of a child into the world and raising that child to be a good man or woman.
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Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.
