If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
~By Judy Garland ~
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 ~
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
~By Yoko Ono ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.
~By Judy Garland ~
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 ~
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
~By Robert Frost ~
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 ~
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 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 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 ~
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
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 ~
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
~By Sitting Bull ~
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
~By George Eliot ~
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
~By Vicki Baum ~
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 ~
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
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 ~
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 ~
For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.
~By Georg Trakl ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
~By Paul Theroux ~
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 ~
I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
~By Melissa Etheridge ~
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 ~
You're only lonely if you're not there for you.
~By Phil McGraw ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.
~By Joe Lando ~
There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
~By Alfred M. Gray ~
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 ~
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
~By Roy Orbison ~
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 ~
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
~By Conor Oberst ~
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 ~
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
~By Martha Beck ~
Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
~By Eddy Arnold ~
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
~By Lew Wallace ~
How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
~By Ray Bolger ~
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 ~
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 ~
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'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 ~
People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.
~By Mort Sahl ~
Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
~By Douglas Hyde ~
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 ~
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
~By Lorraine Hansberry ~
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
~By Nancy Astor ~
New York is tough on lonely people.
~By Michael Bergin ~
It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
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 ~
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
~By Truman Capote ~
Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
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 don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.
~By Carson Daly ~
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.
~By Adrian Belew ~
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
~By Paul Tournier ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
~By Tori Amos ~
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 ~
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 ~
The writer works in a lonely way.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
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 ~
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
~By Jimmy Cannon ~
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 ~
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
~By Richard Wilbur ~
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 ~
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 ~
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
~By Christopher Morley ~
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
~By Doug Coupland ~
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 ~
If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.
~By Joshua Jackson ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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