Lonely Quotes
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Writing is a lonely business.
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Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.
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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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To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.
Chad Hurley -
I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.
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I just need your talking next to me when I wake up, talking next to me when I wake up next to you, when I’m hungover too. ‘Cause you’re the only one who comes when I’m lonely. You’re the only one who comes when I’m lonely for you, when I’m lonely for you…
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Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.
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Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.
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Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
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The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
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It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.
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Writing is a lonely profession.
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Try and find somebody who is lonely. And when you go to see them, they will see you as the messiah. Go and visit a little old lady who has no friends or family. Bring her flowers. People say ‘but that’s nothing.’ It is nothing-but it’s also everything. It always begins with small little things. It all began in Bethlehem. That was pretty small.
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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.
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I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too.
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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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One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.
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Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.
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If I try harder I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog.
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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.
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When i was 12 all of my friends had girlfriends and i didn't, i felt lonely so i asked my mom to date me.
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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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When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a lot of sides of humanity that the average person is never going to see. And those can often be pretty disheartening, and it can make somebody pretty lonely.
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A man is a lonely thing.
