Loneliness Quotes
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Loneliness Quotes
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"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust?"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"Ain't no sunshine when she's gone..."Source: "Ain't No Sunshine" | Speaker: Bill Withers
"All I do is think and blink."Source: I Dream of Jeannie | Speaker: Jeannie
"All the lonely Starbucks lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms | Author: Truman Capote
"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw"Source: A Smile to Remember | Author: Charles Bukowski
"Come to me in the silence of the night."Source: Echo | Author: Christina Rossetti
"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid."Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey | Speaker: HAL 9000
"E.T. phone home."Source: E.T. | Speaker: E.T.
"Got a long list of ex-lovers; they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: "Blank Space" | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world"Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it—"Source: Lady Lazarus | Author: Sylvia Plath
"Hey, Dr. Jones. No time for love!"Source: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Speaker: Short Round
"How dreary — to be — Somebody!Source: I'm Nobody! Who are you? | Author: Emily Dickinson
How public — like a Frog —"
"I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man."Source: Notes from the Underground | Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."Source: The Remarkable Rocket | Author: Oscar Wilde
"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!"Source: Batman: The Animated Series | Speaker: Batman
"I can't live with or without you."Source: "With or Without You" | Speaker: U2
"I don't even want a boyfriend."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath
"I love mankind… It's people I can't stand."Source: Peanuts (comic) | Author: Charles M. Schulz
"I'm just a fool, a fool in love with you."Source: "Earth Angel" | Speaker: The Penguins
"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."Source: Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Speaker: Jessica Rabbit
"I'm not even supposed to be here today."Source: Clerks | Speaker: Dante Hicks
"I've found my friends. They're in my head."Source: "Lithium" | Speaker: Nirvana
"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?"Source: "Free Bird" | Speaker: Lynyrd Skynyrd
"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best"Source: Marilyn Monroe | Speaker: Marilyn Monroe
"If you change your mind, I'm the first in line. Honey, I'm still free, take a chance on me."Source: Take a Chance on Me | Speaker: ABBA
"If you need me, I'll be down here on the floor. Dying."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"In sleep, he sang to me. In dreams, he came. That voice which calls to me and speaks my name."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: Christine Daae
"It was a dark and stormy night."Source: Paul Clifford | Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"It was beauty killed the beast."Source: King Kong | Speaker: Carl Denham
"It's no surprise to me, I am my own worst enemy."Source: "My Own Worst Enemy" | Speaker: Lit
"Keep me hangin' on."Source: "You Keep Me Hangin' On" | Speaker: The Supremes
"Mamma mia, here I go again. My, my, how can I resist you?"Source: Mamma Mia | Speaker: ABBA
"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"No touching!"Source: Arrested Development | Speaker: Various Prison Guards
"Oh, it's okay. I guess I wasn't meant to have a good life."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"Oh, there's an empty place in my bones that calls out for something unknown."Source: Jack's Lament | Speaker: Jack Skellington
"Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love."Source: Marginalia | Author: Billy Collins
"Private eyes. They're watching you. They see your every move."Source: "Private Eyes" | Speaker: Hall and Oates
"Show me the meaning of being lonely"Source: "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" | Speaker: The Backstreet Boys
"Someday monkey won't play piano song, play piano song."Source: "Michelle" | Speaker: The Beatles
"Sometimes being stuck inside my own head is so exhausting it makes me want to cry."Source: Girls | Speaker: Marnie Michaels
"That's my last Duchess painted on the wallSource: My Last Duchess | Author: Robert Browning
Looking as if she were alive."
"The calla lilies are in bloom again."Source: Stage Door | Speaker: Terry Randall
"The cold never bothered me anyway."Source: Frozen | Speaker: Elsa
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."Source: The Red Badge of Courage | Author: Stephen Crane
"The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their irises are one yard high"Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."Source: Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil | Author: Thomas Hobbes
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."Source: On the Road | Author: Jack Kerouac
"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."Source: The Truth About Forever | Author: Sarah Dessen
"there's a bluebird in my heart that/ wants to get out/ but I'm too tough for him"Source: Bluebird | Author: Charles Bukowski
"Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair"Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper."Source: The Hollow Men | Author: T.S. Eliot
"Tonight I can write the saddest lines"Source: Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines | Author: Pablo Neruda
"we are all trapped by a singular fate"Source: Alone with Everybody | Author: Charles Bukowski
"We belong dead."Source: Bride of Frankenstein | Speaker: The Monster
"We can't go on together with suspicious minds."Source: "Suspicious Minds" | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"What about love?"Source: "What About Love" | Speaker: Heart
"What is your major malfunction?"Source: Full Metal Jacket | Speaker: Sgt. Hartman
"Who can it be now?"Source: "Who Can It Be Now?" | Speaker: Men at Work
"Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?"Source: "What's Love Got to Do With It?" | Speaker: Tina Turner
"Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"Will you accept this rose?"Source: The Bachelor | Speaker: Bachelors
"You ain't nothing but a hound dog, crying all the time."Source: "Hound Dog" | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."Source: My Sister's Keeper | Author: Jodi Picoult
"You're so money and you don't even know it."Source: Swingers | Speaker: Trent Walker