Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
~By Mother Teresa ~
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.
~By James H. Breasted ~
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
~By George Byron ~
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
~By Stephane Mallarme ~
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
~By Mason Cooley ~
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
~By Conor Oberst ~
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
~By Russell Baker ~
If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
~By Judy Garland ~
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
~By Eddy Arnold ~
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
~By Lorraine Hansberry ~
The writer works in a lonely way.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.
~By Tom Glazer ~
I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.
~By Carson Daly ~
I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.
~By Scarlett Johansson ~
The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.
~By Josiah Royce ~
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
~By Nancy Astor ~
When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.
~By David Talbot ~
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.
~By Jim Varney ~
The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.
~By Peter D. Mitchell ~
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
~By Maya Angelou ~
The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.
~By Buck Owens ~
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
~By Jimmy Cannon ~
Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
~By Tatjana Patitz ~
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
~By Samuel Hoffenstein ~
I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!
~By Andy Taylor ~
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
~By Tori Amos ~
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
~By Yoko Ono ~
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
~By Geoffrey Fisher ~
I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.
~By Susan Smith ~
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
~By Douglas Hyde ~
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
~By Vicki Baum ~
Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there'
~By Martin Henderson ~
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
~By Albert Einstein ~
She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.
~By Emmy Rossum ~
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.
~By Frank Bruno ~
I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.
~By Danielle Steel ~
There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
~By Alfred M. Gray ~
Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
~By Emilio Estevez ~
New York is tough on lonely people.
~By Michael Bergin ~
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
~By John Masefield ~
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
~By Christopher Morley ~
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
~By Paul Tournier ~
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
~By Anne Frank ~
Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
~By Judy Garland ~
For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
~By Patty Duke ~
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
~By Anne Rice ~
Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.
~By Adrian Belew ~
I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.
~By Geri Halliwell ~
As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
~By Jason Schwartzman ~
I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.
~By Ashley Judd ~
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
~By Lew Wallace ~
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
~By Jules Renard ~
At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.
~By Martha Beck ~
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
~By Jules Verne ~
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
~By Doug Coupland ~
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
~By Donna Tartt ~
I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?
~By Courteney Cox ~
Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.
~By Frank McCourt ~
If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.
~By Joshua Jackson ~
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
~By Marie Windsor ~
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
~By Augusten Burroughs ~
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
~By Truman Capote ~
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.
~By Joe Lando ~
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
~By Alice Walker ~
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
~By Martha Beck ~
How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
~By Ray Bolger ~
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
~By John Milton ~
It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.
~By Judy Garland ~
For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
~By Mario Vargas Llosa ~
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
~By Abe Fortas ~
You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.
~By Guy Forget ~
Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.
~By Ann Miller ~
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
~By Paul Theroux ~
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
~By Bette Davis ~
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
~By Kate Bush ~
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
~By George F. Kennan ~
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
~By Richard Wilbur ~
I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.
~By Vincent Gallo ~
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
~By Alain de Botton ~
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