Lonely Quotes

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.

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.

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

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.

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.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

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.

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.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

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?

Writing is a lonely business.

It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

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.

I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

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.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

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.

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.

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.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.

I'm perpetually lonely.