The Lonely Quotes

Modeling is a lonely business.

I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.

I'm so happy to be around people. I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can.

I want you to know, that when you are lonely, I will be lonely too.

When I say “when you’re always almost lonely, you forget to take it slowly,” I mean that you don’t always take care of yourself.

No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

I know nothing. I know no one. I’m lonely. Every time I see you, you’ve put up some new wall, and you never let me in.

People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.

Because I have been lonely, I value love.

Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won't feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country.

And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.

Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.

Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.

It's hard in L.A. not to go out, it gets lonely. Being an actress is lonely, and I never want to be alone. I hate sleeping alone.

I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language.

They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?

If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.

This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.

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

When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.

You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad

With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star

Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!

A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

Do not exaggerate to stay lonely! Do not exaggerate to stay in the crowds! Come and go, from one to another! Spend not long time in either of them!

If you see a lonely homeless, ask this question: Where the hell the society is? And here is the answer: It is rotten and enjoying somewhere!

Not to climb the high places lonely, but to climb there all together, to rise en masse! This is the way!

You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. “Not really.” I’m just sad, I want to say. And I’m lonely.

On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

New York is tough on lonely people.

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.

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 have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies.

[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.

The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.