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★ Lonely & Loneliness

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.  Menander, 342-c.292 B.C.

 

 

I’ve been too busy to be lonely.  John Paul Getty, interview BBC 1963

 

 

I always felt a sense of cosmic companionship so that the loneliness and the fear have faded away because of a greater feeling of security because of commitment to a moral idea.  Martin Luther King, interview BBC 1961

 

 

People like Sheba think they know what it is to be lonely.  But of the drip, drip of the long-haul no-end-in-sight solitude.  They know nothing.  What it’s like to construct an entire weekend around a visit to the launderette.  Or to be so chronically untouched that the accidental brush of a bus conductor’s hand sends a jilt of longing straight to your groin.  Zoe Heller, Notes on a Scandal, 2003; viz also film

 

 

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.  Charlotte Brontë    

 

 

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others – young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.  F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby  

 

 

Oh God, I’ve never felt so lonely in all my life.  We’ve two chairs.  And our little coffee table.  Poor Cow 1967 starring Carol White & Terence Stamp & John Bindon & Queenie Watts & Kate Williams & Laurie Asprey & James Beckett & Ray Barron & Hilda Barry & Kenneth Campbell & Ron Clarke et al, director Ken Loach

 

 

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone always appealed to me when I was a kid.  Brad Mehldau

 

 

The city can be lonely too.  On Dangerous Ground 1951 starring Robert Ryan & Ida Lupino & Ward Bond & Charles Kemper & Anthony Ross & Ed Begley & Ian Wolfe & Sumner Williams & Gus Schilling et al, director Nicholas Ray, her to him

 

 

The trouble is not really in being alone, it’s being lonely.  One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don’t you think?  Christine Feehan, Dark Prince 

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