“A man is a lonely thing.”
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
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“There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XXI
“What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.”
"The Armenian Writers : A Short Story" (1954)
“When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.”
Source: The Lonesome Gods (1983), Ch. 57
Context: “You are complex.”
“No. Within this giant house of flesh lives a quiet man who would prefer working at a trade. Or perhaps he is a poet whose dreams are too large for his words. “My home is among the mountains. Men destroy what they do not understand, as they destroyed the son of God when he chose to walk among them. I do not wish to be understood. I wish to be left alone. Your Johannes has done this. He is a kind man, a thoughtful man.”
“Are you never lonely?”
“When would I not be lonely? When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is. I am a man apart but have become adjusted to it. I have the mountains, and I have my books. I also have the friendship of Johannes.”
“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”
The Sixties, 1966 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)
“No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:
it requires so much attention.”
“I am a man with a heart that offends
with its lonely and greedy demands.”
"John My Beloved"
Lyrics, Carrie and Lowell (2015)
sabi wa ku no iro nari. kanjaku naru ku wo iu ni arazu. tatoeba, roujin no katchuu wo taishi senjou ni hataraki, kinshuu wo kazari goen ni haberitemo, oi no sugata aru ga gotoshi.
Classical Japanese Database, Translation #42 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/42 (Translation: Robert Hass)
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