Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
New York is tough on lonely people.
~By Michael Bergin ~
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
~By Paul Theroux ~
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 ~
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'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 ~
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 ~
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
~By Truman Capote ~
The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.
~By Buck Owens ~
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
~By Nancy Astor ~
Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
~By Eddy Arnold ~
Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.
~By Adrian Belew ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
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 ~
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 ~
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
~By George Eliot ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
~By Abe Fortas ~
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
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 ~
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
~By Vicki Baum ~
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 ~
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 ~
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
~By Vicki Baum ~
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
~By Yoko Ono ~
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'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.
~By Gus Kahn ~
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
~By Robert Frost ~
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.
~By Georg Trakl ~
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 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 ~
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
~By Jules Renard ~
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 ~
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
~By Lew Wallace ~
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 ~
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
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 ~
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 ~
They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?
~By Kelly Osbourne ~
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 ~
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
~By Doug Coupland ~
You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.
~By Guy Forget ~
People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.
~By Mort Sahl ~
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
~By Paul Tournier ~
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 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 ~
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
~By Geoffrey Fisher ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
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 ~
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.
~By Judy Garland ~
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
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 ~
The writer works in a lonely way.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.
~By Joe Lando ~
Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
~By Douglas Hyde ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
~By Thomas Reed ~
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
~By Conor Oberst ~
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 ~
Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
~By Roy Orbison ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
~By Jimmy Cannon ~
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 ~
How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
~By Ray Bolger ~
I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.
~By Ashley Judd ~
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 ~
We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.
~By Hugo Weaving ~
I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.
~By Julie Walters ~
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
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