Lonely Quotes

The more complicated the movie, the more complex the budget, the more lonely it gets. There's a point where ... who do you go to, other than prayer and friends?

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.

I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.

I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.

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

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

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

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows and bring me your razor blade to show me that you don't cut anymore.

According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon.

It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm.

Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.

Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits inspiration floating about and grab them.

When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.

I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?

Initially I started writing because I felt like I didn't fit in. I just moved to a new school and I felt quite lonely. I think that's where it all started for me.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

This life gets lonely when everybody wants something.

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?

When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to making things up—that did not quite happen.

Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

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.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.