(358 quotes found)
“I've seen fire and I've seen rain, I've seen sunny days I thought would never end, I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, but I always thought I'd see you again”
James Taylor
“The silence that is in the starry sky,The sleep that is among the lonely hills.”
William Wordsworth
“My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.”
Truman Capote
“In the lonely light of morning, in a world that would not heal, it's the bitter taste of losing everything that I've held so dear”
Sarah McLachlan
“Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.”
Joseph Conrad
“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“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 unshaken need for an unshakable God.”
Maya Angelou
“Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected”
Jimmy Cannon
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
Khalil Gibran
“When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.”
Lew Wallace