Lonely Quotes

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

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.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

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.

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

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.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

I want to do good work, but having kids and a life outside of that is important, too. If you don't have anybody around who loves you, then what's it all for? You're just lonely in the end.

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.

New York is tough on lonely people.

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

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.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

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.

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.

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

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.

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.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

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.