"I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life."
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"I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me."
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"…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart."
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"Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude."
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"I thought the only lonely place was on the moon."
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"I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books."
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"Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you."
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"In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream- that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star?"
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"By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule -- From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE, out of TIME."
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"I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely. Maybe that is why he created human beings--to feel less lonely. But as human beings betray his creation, he may become even lonelier."
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"I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do."
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"Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel."
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"One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world."
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"Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?"
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"I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low"
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"All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion."
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"Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world."
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"There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music."
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"Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star."
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"There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely."
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