The Lonely Quotes

There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do.

It's no fun being lonely.

As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

Never feel lonely. You are never lonely. At the deepest core of your being, God resides.

The lonely heart you see tonight will not give up without a fight.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

People know who I am, but I'm feeling so lonely in the middle area, because I feel like I should be at the top.

I listen to a lot of 80s stuff, like Owner of a Lonely Heart, by the group Yes. And Mr. Misters Broken Wings.

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.

Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"

When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.

Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

I think because I can be sad, and I can be lonely, my gift would be trying to help other people feel less lonely and less sad. Because that's what I understand.

That I ever think for one minute that I should ever feel lonely is obscene and unreasonable.

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.

On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely.

History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.

Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring.

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

Everything about life makes me lonely.

Lonely is the night when you find yourself alone.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

People love honesty. Honesty is medicinal, I think. It makes people feel less lonely in the world.

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

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.

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

Even if it is painful and lonely, associate with worthy companions.

You could be married and bored or single and lonely. Ain't no happiness nowhere.