"I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much."
Read quote
3 likes
Lonely quotes
Lonely
1.9K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Lonely
Browse quotes that often appear alongside lonely — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Lonely quotes (page 25 of 95)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men."
Read quote
3 likes
"For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely."
Read quote
3 likes
"She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can."
Read quote
3 likes
"Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only."
Read quote
3 likes
"What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!"
Read quote
3 likes
"We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more."
Read quote
3 likes
"I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?"
Read quote
3 likes
"When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net."
Read quote
3 likes
"On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes."
Read quote
3 likes
"And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last."
Read quote
3 likes
"And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight."
Read quote
3 likes
"Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring."
Read quote
3 likes
"Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude."
Read quote
3 likes
"A lonely impulse of delight"
Read quote
3 likes
"It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years."
Read quote
3 likes
"Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets."
Read quote
3 likes
"Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?"
Read quote
3 likes
"The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony."
Read quote
3 likes
"The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed"
Read quote
3 likes