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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
(Tennessee Williams (1914-1983), U.S. dramatist. Don Quixote, in "Prologue," Camino Real.)
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And lonely as it is, that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less—
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. Desert Places (l. 9-10). . .
The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.)
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The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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All dripping in tangles green,
Cast up by a lonely sea,
(Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. poet, novelist. The Tuft of Kelp (l. 1-2). . .
Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press.)
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Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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For insolent old lechers
you will weep soon on the lonely curbing
(Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8), Roman poet. Odes (I, 25). . .
Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation, The. Charles Tomlinson, ed. (1980) Oxford University Press.)
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It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
(Toni Cade Bambara (b. 1939), African American fiction writer. As quoted in Black Women Writers at Work, ch. 2, by Claudia Tate (1985).)
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
(George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, bk. 5, ch. 44 (1872).)
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For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.
(Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941), U.S. singer, songwriter. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (song), on the album Bringing it all Back Home (1965).)
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A thousand doors ago
when I was a lonely kid ...
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Young.")
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