Loneliness Quotes
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"All the lonely Starbucks lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms | Author: Truman Capote

"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw"Source: A Smile to Remember | Author: Charles Bukowski

"Got a long list of ex-lovers; they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: "Blank Space" | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it—"Source: Lady Lazarus | Author: Sylvia Plath

"I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man."Source: Notes from the Underground | Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!"Source: Batman: The Animated Series | Speaker: Batman

"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best"Source: Marilyn Monroe | Speaker: Marilyn Monroe

"If you change your mind, I'm the first in line. Honey, I'm still free, take a chance on me."Source: Take a Chance on Me | Speaker: ABBA

"If you need me, I'll be down here on the floor. Dying."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher

"In sleep, he sang to me. In dreams, he came. That voice which calls to me and speaks my name."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: Christine Daae

"Oh, it's okay. I guess I wasn't meant to have a good life."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher

"Oh, there's an empty place in my bones that calls out for something unknown."Source: Jack's Lament | Speaker: Jack Skellington

"Private eyes. They're watching you. They see your every move."Source: "Private Eyes" | Speaker: Hall and Oates

"Show me the meaning of being lonely"Source: "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" | Speaker: The Backstreet Boys

"Sometimes being stuck inside my own head is so exhausting it makes me want to cry."Source: Girls | Speaker: Marnie Michaels

"That's my last Duchess painted on the wallSource: My Last Duchess | Author: Robert Browning
Looking as if she were alive."

"The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."Source: Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil | Author: Thomas Hobbes

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."Source: On the Road | Author: Jack Kerouac

"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding

"there's a bluebird in my heart that/ wants to get out/ but I'm too tough for him"Source: Bluebird | Author: Charles Bukowski

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines"Source: Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines | Author: Pablo Neruda