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 ~
I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
~By Barry Bonds ~
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
~By George Eliot ~
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
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 ~
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
~By Doug Coupland ~
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
~By Richard Wilbur ~
Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
~By Abe Fortas ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
~By Doug Coupland ~
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 ~
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 ~
Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.
~By Adrian Belew ~
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 ~
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
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 ~
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
~By Conor Oberst ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
~By Douglas Hyde ~
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 ~
There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
~By Alfred M. Gray ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
~By Thomas Reed ~
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
~By Lorraine Hansberry ~
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
~By Paul Tournier ~
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 ~
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
~By Vicki Baum ~
Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
~By LeBron James ~
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 ~
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
~By Paul Theroux ~
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
~By Ray Bolger ~
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
~By Tatjana Patitz ~
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 ~
It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.
~By Judy Garland ~
I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
~By Melissa Etheridge ~
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 ~
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 ~
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
~By Truman Capote ~
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 ~
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
~By Janice Dickinson ~
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
~By Vicki Baum ~
I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.
~By Jay London ~
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
~By Audre Lorde ~
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
~By Tori Amos ~
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 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 ~
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.
~By Julie Walters ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.
~By Mort Sahl ~
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.
~By Georg Trakl ~
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 ~
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
~By Martha Beck ~
I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.
~By Ashley Judd ~
I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.
~By Gus Kahn ~
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 need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.
~By Joe Lando ~
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 ~
Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
~By Geoffrey Fisher ~
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
~By Robert Frost ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
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 ~
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 ~
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
The writer works in a lonely way.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
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 ~
New York is tough on lonely people.
~By Michael Bergin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
~By Eddy Arnold ~
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 ~
You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.
~By Guy Forget ~
It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
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 ~
If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.
~By Denis Johnson ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
~By Judy Garland ~
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