1 | ->Even when I was in a crowd,\ |
2 | I was always alone. |
3 | -->--'''Creator/ErnestHemingway''' |
4 | |
5 | ->'''Sheridan''': I never forget the feeling of helplessness. I never thought there could be anything worse than being all alone in the night.\ |
6 | '''Delenn''': But there is. Being all alone in a crowd. |
7 | -->--''Series/BabylonFive'', "There All the Honor Lies" |
8 | |
9 | ->Sometimes it's a relief to get lost in the sea of faces...other times, it feels like I'm drowning. |
10 | -->--Iris Kolrick, Webcomic/{{Shadownova}} |
11 | |
12 | ->For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. |
13 | -->--Francis Bacon |
14 | |
15 | ->'''Pvt. Robert Witt:''' Do you ever feel lonely?\ |
16 | '''Sgt. Edward Welsh:''' Only around people. |
17 | -->--''Film/TheThinRedLine'' |
18 | |
19 | ->I have not loved the world, nor the world me;\ |
20 | I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd\ |
21 | To its idolatries a patient knee, --\ |
22 | Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, -- nor cried aloud\ |
23 | In worship of an echo; in the crowd\ |
24 | They could not deem me one of such; I stood\ |
25 | Among them, but not of them; in a shroud\ |
26 | Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could,\ |
27 | Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued. |
28 | -->--Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Canto III, Stanza CXIII |
29 | |
30 | ->''How can I feel abandoned, even when the world surrounds me?''\ |
31 | ''How can I bite the hand that feeds the strangers all around me?''\ |
32 | ''How can I feel so lonely''\ |
33 | ''Never really knowing anyone?'' |
34 | -->--'''Music/DreamTheater''', "Misunderstood" |
35 | |
36 | ->''Facing twenty thousand of your friends''\ |
37 | ''How can anyone be so lonely?'' |
38 | -->-- '''Music/{{ABBA}}''', "Super Trouper" |
39 | |
40 | ->'''Freya:''' Do you know what it is to be alone among many and unable to speak your fears? |
41 | ->'''EMH:''' I think I do. |
42 | ->'''Freya:''' How do you survive? |
43 | ->'''EMH:''' [[CharacterDevelopment I'm still learning how.]] |
44 | -->-- ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Heroes and Demons" |
45 | |
46 | ->"Where are the men?" the little prince at last took up the conversation again. "It is a little lonely in the desert ..."\ |
47 | "It is also lonely among men," the snake said. |
48 | -->-- ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' |
49 | |
50 | ->''People say I'm the life of the party''\ |
51 | ''Cause I tell a joke or two''\ |
52 | ''Although I might be laughing loud and hearty''\ |
53 | ''Deep inside I'm blue''\ |
54 | \ |
55 | ''So take a good look at my face''\ |
56 | ''You'll see my smile looks out of place''\ |
57 | ''If you look closer it's easy to trace''\ |
58 | ''The tracks of my tears'' |
59 | -->--'''Smokey Robinson and the Miracles''', "The Tracks of My Tears" |
60 | |
61 | ->In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose. |
62 | -->--Creator/FriedrichNietzsche |
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