Lonely Quotes (144)
Quotes and citations about lonely
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely... view
By: Mortimer Adler
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely... view
By: Tori Amos
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... view
By: Maya Angelou
Touring is really a pretty lonely business... view
By: Eddy Arnold
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones... view
By: Nancy Astor
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... view
By: Russell Baker
It's a dismally lonely business, writing... view
By: Toni Cade Bambara
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole... view
By: Vicki Baum
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole... view
By: Vicki Baum
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... view
By: Jennifer Beals
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... view
By: Martha Beck
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind... view
By: Martha Beck
Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely... view
By: Adrian Belew
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... view
By: Kristen Bell
New York is tough on lonely people... view
By: Michael Bergin
How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road... view
By: Ray Bolger
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely... view
By: Erma Bombeck
I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top... view
By: Barry Bonds
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... view
By: Frank Borman
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... view
By: Alain de Botton
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... view
By: James H. Breasted
But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy... view
By: Frank Bruno
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian... view
By: Sitting Bull
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... view
By: Augusten Burroughs
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be... view
By: Ellen Burstyn
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... view
By: Leo Buscaglia
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... view
By: Kate Bush
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.. view
By: George Byron
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected... view
By: Jimmy Cannon
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely... view
By: Truman Capote
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure... view
By: Charlie Chaplin
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about... view
By: Anton Chekhov
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... view
By: Joseph Conrad
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty... view
By: Mason Cooley
Even cats grow lonely and anxious... view
By: Mason Cooley
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself... view
By: Doug Coupland
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all... view
By: Doug Coupland
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?.. view
By: Courteney Cox
I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary... view
By: Carson Daly