Lonely Quotes

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

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.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

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!

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.

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.

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

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.

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.

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

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.

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.

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.

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

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.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.

I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

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.

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.