Lonely Quotes

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach students to value themselves and to not put others down.

We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame.

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

It made her eyes fill up with tears, and she for a few more minutes starting it over, replaying it, watching his lips say the words: "We can be lonely together.

We can be lonely together

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.

The Ploughmen is part inspired fever-dream, part adventure story, a lyric parable of not just goodand evil but of the vast and beautiful and often lonely country in-between. Kim Zupan is a wonder.

The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.

The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is rarely seen, nor strayeth far from his bed; The short days pass unwelcomed one by one.

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

The thing about Dirk [Gently] is that he's very lonely.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.

I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.

No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]

I’m here because I know the sadness inside you. I know what it feels like to wake in the morning, lost and lonely and aching for someone to be there with me. (Sebastian)

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.

There are more than a few messages from lonely people wondering why they never find themselves described...I illustrated one, "How come no one ever misses me?" They kill me, those.

At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.