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 ~
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 ~
I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.
~By Ashley Judd ~
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
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 ~
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
~By Yousuf Karsh ~
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
~By Edna Ferber ~
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 ~
It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.
~By Susan Hampshire ~
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
~By Thomas Reed ~
You're only lonely if you're not there for you.
~By Phil McGraw ~
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
~By Judy Garland ~
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 ~
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 ~
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
~By Truman Capote ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
~By Sitting Bull ~
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 ~
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
~By George Eliot ~
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
~By Christopher Morley ~
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 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 ~
I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.
~By Joe Lando ~
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
~By Richard Wilbur ~
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 ~
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 ~
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
~By Robert Frost ~
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
~By Lorraine Hansberry ~
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 ~
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 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'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.
~By Gus Kahn ~
I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.
~By Carson Daly ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
~By Roy Orbison ~
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 ~
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
~By Joseph Wood Krutch ~
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
~By Peter D. Mitchell ~
Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.
~By Paul Kane ~
For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.
~By Georg Trakl ~
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 ~
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
~By Jules Renard ~
How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
~By Ray Bolger ~
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
~By Martha Beck ~
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 ~
Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
~By Tatjana Patitz ~
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
~By Yoko Ono ~
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
~By April Winchell ~
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
~By Henry Rollins ~
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
~By Doug Coupland ~
I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.
~By Kristen Bell ~
I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.
~By Julie Walters ~
New York is tough on lonely people.
~By Michael Bergin ~
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 road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.
~By Buck Owens ~
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
~By Doug Coupland ~
It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
~By Christopher Morley ~
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
~By Robert Plant ~
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 ~
Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
~By Cal Thomas ~
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
~By Henry Timrod ~
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
~By Tori Amos ~
I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
~By Barry Bonds ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
~By Eddy Arnold ~
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 ~
If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.
~By Joshua Jackson ~
You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.
~By Guy Forget ~
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 ~
We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.
~By Jude Law ~
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.
~By Frank Borman ~
I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
~By Melissa Etheridge ~
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
~By Lew Wallace ~
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 ~
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
~By Tecumseh ~
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