Quotes · Skopia

20 quotes

1971

★ 7.1

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? He sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whinin' low, I'm so lonesome I could cry.

Hank Williams

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry · 1949

★ 5.4

Novel

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. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes · 1911

★ 5.3

Under certain circumstances, one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd.

Georg Simmel

The Metropolis and Mental Life · 1903

★ 5.1

Poem · Narrative poem

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.8

Song

All the lonely people, Where do they all come from? All the lonely people, Where do they all belong?

The Beatles

Eleanor Rigby · 1966

★ 3.8

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

If you think about it, your favorite memories, the most important moments in your life, were you alone?... Life's better with company.

Ryan Bingham

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 3.8

Poem

I wandered lonely as a cloud.

William Wordsworth

1804

★ 3.7

Poem

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · 1818

★ 3.6

Novel

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 3.6

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Fred Rogers

2003

★ 3.6

Novel

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart · 1999

★ 3.5

Travel writing

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 2.3

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

In solitude What happiness? who can enjoy alone, Or all enjoying, what contentment find?

John Milton

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 2.2

Novel

There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind-wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.

Toni Morrison

Beloved · 1987

★ 2.1

Film · Film noir · Drama (film) · Drama

It is so crowded and yet so lonely, isn't it?

Uncle Pio

Gilda · 1946

★ 2.0

Song · Rock music

Only the lonely (know the way I feel).

Roy Orbison

Only the Lonely · 1960

★ 2.0

Poem

I wish my deadly foe, no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.

Nicholas Breton

1577

★ 1.9

Novel

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Willa Cather

Shadows on the Rock · 1931

★ 1.9

Film · Biography (film) · Adventure drama (film) · Biography · Adventure drama

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

Chris McCandless

Into the Wild · 2007

★ 1.9

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