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Thomas Brackett Reed - It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Friedrich Nietzsche - The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

John le Carre - Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

Khalil Gibran - Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.

James Thurber - Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

Jimmy Cannon - Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

Winning sentence - Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.

Bette Davis - To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Wendy Wasserstein - No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

Paul Tournier - Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

David Pratt - Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

George Frost Kennan - The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

Samuel Hoffenstein - When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

Lillian Hellman - Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Edna Ferber - Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Lou Dorfsman - Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Bette Davis - To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis - To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.

Courteney Cox - I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point

Charles Hamilton Aide - I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Henry David Thoreau - I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Russell Baker - I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Kahlil Gibran - Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

George Gordon Byron - There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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