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.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Fire

• They live forever, but many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life’s value.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Why

• I also love a quiet placeThat's green, away from all mankind;A lonely pool, and let a treeSigh with her bosom over me.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Green
  • Lonely
  • Pool

• My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Lonely
  • Just
  • Diary

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Touring

• Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

  

  Ann Miller
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

  

  Ben Horowitz
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Popular

• It's hard to be a teenager. It's lonely, and you feel like no one understands you. I think that's natural, and my mother let me have the space to feel that way.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • Mother
  • Space
  • Teenager

• I feel sometimes and in some ways like Linda Romanoli and Monica Velour; I feel marginalized because I'm in my fifties. If you went online and you look at some of the blogs, which one can do on a lonely night, it's pretty startling what people will say about you just because you're in your fifties.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Night

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

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Lonely

• I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Years
  • Sad
  • Lonely

• 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.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Together
  • Words
  • Eyes

• An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • World
  • Lonely

• I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

  

  Larry David
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Guy

• Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Success
  • Cold
  • Ice

• I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Never

• I'm addicted to 'Lonely Planet' guides. Naturally, I'll buy one whenever I take a trip somewhere, but it goes beyond that: I've begun buying them for cities and countries I just hope to visit one day.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • Hope
  • Lonely

• Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

  

  Danielle Steel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.

  

  John McCain
  • Life
  • Children
  • Experience

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

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • True
  • House
  • Alone

• True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • True
  • Want
  • Lonely

• When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Rest
  • Lonely
  • Broke

• Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone else's character and that responsibility. It's exhausting.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Life
  • Character
  • Responsibility

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