James Jones Quotes

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James Jones

James Jones

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AKA James Jones

Manner of Death Natural Causes

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

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Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

— Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt (Montgomery Clift), From Here to Eternity

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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.

— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923

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The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

— Emily Haines, Interview: Emily Haines

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Introverts don't get lonely if they don't socialize with a lot of people, but we do get lonely if we don't have intimate interactions on a regular basis.

— Sophia Dembling, The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World

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Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.

— Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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I don’t want to be so scared all the time. So alone. I want to believe something can be worth it. Worth the pain. Worth the risk.

— Hannah Harrington, Saving June

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More and more I found myself at a loss for words and didn’t want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

— Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (A Borzoi Book)

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If you’re lonely, bored or unhappy, remember you are…young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.

— Ezra Koenig, Vampire Weekend Frontman Ezra Koenig on the Brand-New Album and His College Advice

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She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

— Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

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And what is reality, if it isn’t how we feel about things? What else matters at the end of the day when we lie in bed alone with our thoughts?

— Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now

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The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

— Lois Lowry, The Giver

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I enjoy controlled loneliness. I like wandering around the city alone. I’m not afraid of coming back to an empty flat and lying down in an empty bed. I’m afraid of having no one to miss, of having no one to love.

— Kuba Wojewódzki, via GoodReads

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We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we’ve never even met.

— David Foster Wallace, via GoodReads

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People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.

— Kim Culbertson, The Liberation of Max McTrue

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I am sometimes totally lost from the world.

— Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

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The best thing about the worst time of your life is that you get to see true colours of everyone you cared for.

— Anonymous, The best thing about the worst time of your life is that you get to see true colours of everyone you cared for.

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I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

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Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

— Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

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Before I knew the phrase ‘irl’ I knew that irl was never going to be the place I felt most at home, which is a lonely thing to know from a young age, maybe.

— Chrissy Stockton, Chaos Magic

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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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On the shore of the wide world I stand alone.

— John Keats, When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats

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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

— Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape — the loneliness of it — the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

— Andrew Wyeth, Painter Andrew Wyeth Dies at 91

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