What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
~By Richard Wilbur ~
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 ~
Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.
~By Adrian Belew ~
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 ~
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
~By George Eliot ~
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
~By Christopher Morley ~
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
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 ~
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
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 ~
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
~By Judy Garland ~
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
~By Jimmy Cannon ~
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 ~
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
~By Conor Oberst ~
The writer works in a lonely way.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
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 ~
Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
~By Emilio Estevez ~
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 ~
People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.
~By Mort Sahl ~
I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.
~By Joe Lando ~
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
~By Vicki Baum ~
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 ~
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
~By Nancy Astor ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
~By Vicki Baum ~
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
~By Truman Capote ~
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 ~
Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
~By Martha Beck ~
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
~By Roy Orbison ~
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
~By Mason Cooley ~
We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.
~By Hugo Weaving ~
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 ~
It's a dismally lonely business, writing.
~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
You're only lonely if you're not there for you.
~By Phil McGraw ~
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 ~
Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
~By Tatjana Patitz ~
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
~By Barry Bonds ~
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 ~
New York is tough on lonely people.
~By Michael Bergin ~
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
~By Lorraine Hansberry ~
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 ~
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 was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.
~By Jay London ~
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
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 don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.
~By Carson Daly ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
~By Douglas Hyde ~
I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.
~By Ashley Judd ~
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
~By Albert Einstein ~
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
~By Robert Frost ~
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 ~
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
~By Lew Wallace ~
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 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 road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.
~By Buck Owens ~
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
~By Sitting Bull ~
I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.
~By Gus Kahn ~
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 ~
Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
~By Abe Fortas ~
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 ~
I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
~By Melissa Etheridge ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
~By Ray Bolger ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
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 ~
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
~By Tori Amos ~
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
~By Doug Coupland ~
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 ~
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