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“The bagel is a lonely roll to eat all by yourself because in order for the true taste to come out you need your family. One to cut the bagels, one to toast them, one to put on the cream cheese and the lox, one to put them on the table and one to supervise.”

Needs Order Cutting Taste Lonely Tables Our Family Cheese Cream Toasts Bagels Cream Cheese

Author:Gertrude Berg

“Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things”

Needs Enough Dream Dies Mountain Lonely Wide Graves Queens Consumerism Overconsumption

Author:Tracy Chapman

“Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.”

Needs Strong Loneliness Solitude Roots Lonely Solitary Togetherness Strong Roots

Book:A listening heart: the art of contemplative living

Source: A listening heart: the art of contemplative living

“Only sad sacks and conformists need things like no kiss on New Year's Eve to remind them to feel lonely. They're as bad as the people who need St. Patty's Day as an excuse to get drunk or Halloween to wear slutty outfits. You can feel sorry for yourself and dress like a hooker all year round: Hallmark never needs to know.”

Source: I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Se nsitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated

“True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?”

Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history

“What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.”

Men Needs Should Kind Helping Nations Common Alive Poet Lonely Fortune Warm Glorious Fifty Fourth Monument Civics Valor Dubious Orators Gregarious

Book:Essays in Religion and Morality

Source: Essays in Religion and Morality

“It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I just can't sleep Outside the rain is pourin', I'm lonely as can be Maybe 2night'll be different than the nights before I need 2 feel someone beside me, I can't be alone no more”

Needs Feels I Can Different Night Sleep Morning Rain Lonely Clock Can't Sleep I'm Lonely

Author:Prince

“Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely forest, on the highway, or in the streets of the metropolis on a dark night, she sometimes needs, too, the protection of all men against this one.”

Men Way Needs Sometimes Whole Night Sex Dark Streets Lonely Protection Forests One Man Highways Pioneers Dark Night Metropolis

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach students to value themselves and to not put others down.”

People Thinking Needs Values Teach Students Lonely Teenager Bully Lonely People

Author:Nick Vujicic

“Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.”

People Ifs Needs Feels Character Stories Feelings Humanity Teach Lonely Fictional Character

Author:Isabel Allende

“A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.”

Needs Loneliness Cat Lonely

Book:The frightened wife, and other murder stories

Source: The frightened wife, and other murder stories

“I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I'm never lonely.”

Needs Enjoy Wife Lonely My Wife Me Alone Alone Time

Author:George Lopez

“your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.”

People Needs Soul Failing Trouble Loneliness Elements Lonely Hearing Your Soul Unconscious Curls Triumphant Sociable

Book:The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

Source: The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

“When I'm writing, I like to travel alone. If you really want to find out about a place, you need to be as free as possible to be spontaneous. You also need to be lonely, because loneliness is a great teacher, too.”

Ifs Want Needs Writing Teacher Loneliness Lonely Spontaneous Great Teacher Be Spontaneous

Author:Paul Theroux

“The saying goes that history repeats itself; personal histories do the same. We can gather the lessons of others' lives through observation, conversation, and by seeking advice. We can use the automatic system to find out who the happy people are, and the reflective system to evaluate how they got to be that way. Pursuing happiness need not be a lonely endeavor. In fact, throwing in our lot with others may be a very good way of coping with the disappointments of choice.”

“I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still.”

Needs Stills I Can Soul Moments Facts Solitude Lonely Pressure Being Lonely Respite

Author:Steve Goodier

“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”

Thinking Needs Life Is Inspiring Loneliness Lonely Cups Tea Need You Cups Of Tea

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.”

World Needs Writing Said My Own Company Nice Dad Lonely My Dad Contrast Me Alone Loner Time Of Need Alone Time Sociability My Own World I Need Time

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.”

Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition

“But there are so many ways to be needy. There are many who mourn and find no comfort. Many are lonely and find no love. Some feel unneeded and find no opportunities to share with others. Anyone who has an unmet need is needy. We are all needy! And those who have something they can share are rich. We are all rich! All of us can share something that may lift a burden or help in some silent struggle.”

Way Needs Feels May Helping Opportunity Struggle Rich Share Comfort Lonely Silent Burden Lifts Mourn Needy No Love Unmet Needs

Author:Mary Edmunds

“It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.”

Needs Mind Stills Solitude Quiet Lonely

Book:The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ

Source: The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ

“Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I am excited to write about the real world, to stay in it. Fiction is an escape, a parallel life, and it was a powerful source of comfort for me when my own life was raw and uncomfortable. I don't feel the burning need to disappear into a fictional character these days.”

“Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.”

People Needs Suffering Stuff Sin Lonely Envy Flesh Horrible Daily Life

Author:Esther Smith

“Your friends will need you, too, someday. Maybe not in the same way, maybe not in cash and shelter, but they'll need you - to listen without judging, to invite them over when they're lonely, to show up for their events, to register in whatever way matters to them that they matter to you. Be on the lookout for these opportunities to give back, and do whatever is in your power not to miss many of them.”

Way Needs Giving Matter Shows Opportunity Missing Events Judging Lonely Someday Invites Cash Shelter Giving Back Need You Register

Author:Carolyn Hax

“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”

Needs Loneliness Fine Solitude Lonely Being Alone Loner Loneliness And Solitude

Author:Honore de Balzac

“We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.”

Needs Giving Helping Born Lonely Obligation Live Your Life Born Alone

Author:Bill Murray

“I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.”

Needs Feels Ideas Aspect Lonely Plant Feeling Lonely Being Lonely Like Being Alone Plant Life

Author:Robert Plant

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

Source: Shampoo Planet

“And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”

Needs Sometimes Moments Path Lonely Lonely Path

Book:Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend. People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely. Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for. Maybe worth dying for too. If that what has to be. No bad friends. Only people you want. Need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.”

People Ifs Want Needs Feels Heart House Hurt Dying Lonely Scared Good Friend Being Scared So Lonely Just Friends Bad Friend

Author:Stephen King

“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”

Ifs Needs Long Guy Differences Lonely Sick Nuts Mice Crooks Lonely Man

Book:Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.”

People Needs Mind Moments Stories Seems My Own Loss Novel Taken Pages Understood Lonely Stranger Absence Ghost Confused That Moment Refuge My Own Life Lonely People

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

Needs Moments Pain Memories Worst Loneliness Lonely Domestic Violence Giver Feeling Lonely I Am Lonely Lonely Feeling Old Memories Lonely Heart Past Pain

Book:The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition

Source: The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition

“After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.”

Needs Firsts Self Found Loses Powerful Moral Identity Lonely Weak Isolation Establishment Imperatives Separateness

Book:The mortgaged heart

Source: The mortgaged heart

“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.”

Needs Heart Kind Littles Simple Loneliness My Heart Lonely

Author:John Mayer

“You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess, and lonely, and His or Her child. God loved you no matter how crazy you felt on the inside, no matter what a fake you were; always, even in your current condition, even before coffee. God loves you crazily, like I love you...like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.”

Source: Imperfect Birds: A Novel

“But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together and share everything, talk about everything. Privacy make people lonely. Privacy make family fallen apart.”

People Needs Important Together Parent Share Son Daughter Lonely China Fallen Privacy Grandparent

Author:Xiaolu Guo

“I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.”

People Way Want Needs Believe Literature I Believe Change Destiny Loneliness Lonely Method What You Want Behave Be You Your Destiny Future Destiny I'm Lonely Control Your Destiny

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?”

Needs Feels Moments Dream Stars Shapes Moon Expectations Lonely Clouds Clever Behave Subtle Sensibility Elegant Courteous Needs Of Others

Book:The Fox Woman

Source: The Fox Woman

“Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.”

Source: Housekeeping: A Novel

“Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.”

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I need you to protect me from being lonely. Don't fight for me. Be with me.That's what I need."-Bianca to Lucas”

Needs Fighting Protect Lonely Need You Being Lonely I Need You Fight For Me

Author:Claudia Gray

“We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?”

Source: Rosie Dunne

“You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there. It’s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.”

Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993

“Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.”

Ifs Needs Trouble Lonely Miserable

Book:New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

Source: New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

“People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.”

People Needs Feels Said Lonely

Book:Liesl & Po

Source: Liesl & Po

“Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.”

Needs Children Said Home Lonely Swings Headlines Loving Home Swing Sets

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius’s shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a small aching need in him for somebody to notice, even if they were not glad, that he had come home.”

Ifs Needs Home Lonely Empty Shame Glad Fallen Tonight Coming Home Rome Huts

Author:Rosemary Sutcliff

“Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land." "Like me, then," I said. "Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.”

Want Needs Said Land Dying Like You Lonely Lips Corners Like Me Saving

Book:Stolen

Source: Stolen