Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind. ~By Martha Beck ~
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 ~
You're only lonely if you're not there for you. ~By Phil McGraw ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. ~By Erma Bombeck ~
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 time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. ~By Doug Coupland ~
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 thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. ~By Lorraine Hansberry ~
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 ~
Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~By Abe Fortas ~
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 ~
If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man. ~By Joshua Jackson ~
I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group. ~By Julie Walters ~
It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold. ~By Judy Garland ~
I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary. ~By Carson Daly ~
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 ~
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 ~
Even cats grow lonely and anxious. ~By Mason Cooley ~
There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places. ~By Alfred M. Gray ~
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. ~By Christopher Morley ~
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 road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy. ~By Buck Owens ~
I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else. ~By Gus Kahn ~
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~By Khalil Gibran ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian. ~By Sitting Bull ~
People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely. ~By Mort Sahl ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? ~By Judy Garland ~
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 ~
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd. ~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ~By Vicki Baum ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. ~By Charles Baudelaire ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. ~By Nancy Astor ~
How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road. ~By Ray Bolger ~
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 ~
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. ~By Jimmy Cannon ~
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 ~
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 ~
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend. ~By Conor Oberst ~
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. ~By Paul Theroux ~
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier. ~By Lillian Hellman ~
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 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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. ~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
It's a dismally lonely business, writing. ~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. ~By Tennessee Williams ~
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 are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. ~By Jules Renard ~
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 ~
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 ~
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. ~By Truman Capote ~
I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet. ~By Melissa Etheridge ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~By Richard Wilbur ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. ~By Anton Chekhov ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. ~By Douglas Hyde ~
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? ~By George Eliot ~
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight. ~By Roy Orbison ~
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 ~
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 very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. ~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Touring is really a pretty lonely business. ~By Eddy Arnold ~
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. ~By Doug Coupland ~
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. ~By Charlie Chaplin ~
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 very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times. ~By Thomas Reed ~
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 ~
For whoever is lonely there is a tavern. ~By Georg Trakl ~
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