lonely quotes

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been, Lives in a dream. Waits at the window, wearing the facethat she keeps in a jar by the door, Who is it for? All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

-Paul
  'Eleanor Rigby'.

   Well since my baby left me I found a new place to dwell It's down at the end of lonely street At Heartbreak Hotel.

-Presley, Elvis Aaron
  'Heartbreak Hotel' (with Mae Boren Axton andTommy Durden).

There is no looking-glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself and yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between usöhard, cold and misted over with my breath.Now they havetaken everything away.What am I doing in this place and who am I?

-Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams
  The consciousness of Antoinette Mason/Bertha Rochester at a point of intersection with the text of Jane Eyre. Wide Sargasso Sea, pt.3.

I don't think it does any harm to the artist to be lonely as an artist.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Letter to Pennar Davies.

Some people swim lakes, others climb flagpoles, some join monasteries, but we, my friends, who have considered suicide take our daily walk with death and are not lonely. In the end it brings more honesty and care than all the democratic parliaments of tricks.

-Webb, Phyllis
  EvenYour Right Eye,'To FriendsWho HaveAlso Considered Suicide'.

These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Lines composed a few miles aboveTintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of theWye',1.22^8.

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