Lonely Quotes
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I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?
Courteney Cox
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Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
Vladimir Putin
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A man is a lonely thing.
John Steinbeck
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Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.
Ben Dolnick
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...
Billy Joel
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Writing is a lonely profession.
Bob Mayer
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Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor - Washington's most sought-after bachelor.
Alistair Horne
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The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
Douglas Coupland
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A person cries out against life because it's lonely, and because life's broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it, too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have - but very painful to the lips.
Frank Herbert
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Out on the moors, The lonely moors, I roll around in sheep poo. Heathcliff, it's youuuuu, I hate you, I love you tooooo. Let me in, I'm here, it's meeeee, Catheeeeeeee. Look out of your windooooow.
Louise Rennison
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Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Lorraine Hansberry
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Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
Douglas Hyde
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Money is lonely anyway. When you got it, people always want it. You don't want to be used; sometimes you don't know where a cat is comin' from.
Jim Brown
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Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.
Maurice Saatchi
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Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.
Adrian Belew
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Success can be as simple as the warm feeling you get when you smile at a stranger, someone you know must be lonely, and having that stranger return your smile. It can be the bringing of a child into the world and raising that child to be a good man or woman.
Maryanne Trump Barry
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Writing is a lonely business.
Sherman Alexie
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He was proud, like all lonely men. Lonely men must be proud or die.
Gene Wolfe
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Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.
Katharine Viner
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou
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I remembered Elizabeth had never laughed once during our talk. I feel that she hasn't learned how. The great house is so still and lonely and laughterless. It looks dull and gloomy even now when the world is a riot of autumn color. Little Elizabeth is doing too much listening to lost whispers.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too.
Blythe Danner
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To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.
Chad Hurley -
The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have been destined to walk upon ice or sand, or climb the mountains or take craft upon the sea. But surely he was never meant to fly? But he does, and finding out how to do it was his last great adventure.
Frederick Forsyth