L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Loneliness, she said, is when nothing will stick to you, when nothing will thrive around you, when you start to think that you kill things just by being there.”
Source: Transit
“Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.”
“Loneliness, Stephan. That's why you and I memorialize our dead. There's the briefest of moments before we kill, where we literally hold their life in our hands, and then rip it away, and we're left with nothing. So gathering other people's letters or writing their names on a wall, is a reminder that in the end we're left infinitely and utterly alone.”
“Loneliness struck again, its force doubled by how much she wished it was her family there instead. Then oddly enough, she met the boy's stare and that feeling came again, that this was her family.”
Source: A Dark of Endless Days
“Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.”
“Loneliness teaches and shows you the real and unreal and such things that one can never understand and even imagine living with others.”
“Loneliness told me, I will not leave you alone.”
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.”
Source: All the Birds in the Sky
“Loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Loneliness was an alchemist that turned me into gold. Men flock around me to claim a piece of my soul and place their ears on my chest to hear my heart beating slower than the hands of time. Yes, I let them but I so badly wish it was you. I am not easy to love, but then who really is? Treasures and gold I am, I am love and Petra and California too. I am a lottery ticket with the winning numbers, but this money is cursed When I stand in the sun, the reflection is you, you and all you.”
Source: Lover
“Loneliness was like an old pair of socks I should have gotten rid of ages ago- though worn and slightly scratchy, they were somehow comfortable despite the discomfort”
Source: When a Brown Girl Flees
“Loneliness was never meant for the living; it was especially designed for the dying by Satan himself.
Whether we’re surrounded by loved ones or not, it’s only the one slipping into the next world that is experiencing death.
Dying is the loneliest moment of anyone’s life—and everyone seems hell-bent on getting there as fast as possible.”
“Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.”
“Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some fanciful play of words, but physically. It hurt... it hurt like phagocytes devouring the white matter of her brain. It was merely that she had no friends. She didn't even have a sanctuary in which she could simply be alone.”
Source: I Am Charlotte Simmons
“Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some fanciful play of words, but physically. It hurt... it hurt like phagocytes devouring the white matter of her brain. It wasn't merely that she had no friends. She didn't even have a sanctuary in which she could simply be alone.”
Source: I Am Charlotte Simmons
“Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“Loneliness while in the presence of others is a most cruel kind...”
“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”
Source: Dracula
“Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.”
Source: Day watch
“Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.”
Source: The Grass is Singing
“Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.”
“Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.”
“Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.”
“Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.”
Source: The History of Love
“Lonely and Alone: There's a difference.”
“Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California”
“Lonely Balcony
The deterioration brought by weariness was visible. Its burden of abandonment can be perceived at a glance. The balcony ache with longings. Even after the endurance of seasonal torments, it is still upholding its anatomy. It offers refuge to the willing souls, despite all the misery of life.”
“Lonely Balcony
The deterioration brought by weariness was visible. Its burden of abandonment can be perceived at a glance. The balcony ache with longings. Even after the endurance of seasonal torments, it is still upholding its anatomy. It offers refuge to the willing souls, despite all the misery of life."
― Iqra Iqbal”
“Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.”
Source: Screening history
“Lonely children probably wrote the bible”
“Lonely comes after losing someone or something you used to be with, you no more get its presence”
“Lonely cries, and she was lonely, not for friends but for a time that hadn't been violated.”
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.”
“Lonely girls don't ask for attention,
They're quiet with their intentions,
They walk through halls of mirrors
With no reflection.”
Source: Her Suns And Their Daughters: Daughters Of The Universe Seen
“Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless. And lonely is healing if you make it.”
“Lonely is a state of mind, not a place”
Source: Bad Signs
“Lonely' is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does all kinds of harsher adjectives, like 'sad' or 'strange'. I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not 'lonely', more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.”
“Lonely is not being alone,
Lonely is being with people you can't trust or rely on.”
“Lonely is the night when you find yourself alone.”
“Lonely Life
***
It is ongoing
A way of retreat and defeat
A painful, lonely life
Within loneliness.”
“Lonely, like a blank page, for your words.”
“Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.”
“Lonely.
My heart grips as the word crosses my mind. So many different feelings come with the word, not just loneliness. The word went beyond its definition. Loneliness has a deeper meaning to those who truly know what it means to be alone.”
Source: Alone in Paris
“lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.”
Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.”
“Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.”
Source: Winter's Tale
“Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.”
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”
Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again