Lonely Quotes

• Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.

  

  Katharine Viner
  • Children
  • Experience
  • Lonely

• Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.

  

  Debi Gliori
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I need my time to be lonely.

  

  Jose Mourinho
  • Time
  • Lonely

• Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

  

  Corey Hart
  • Music
  • Teenager
  • Lonely

• I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don't get to see my family and friends as much as I'd like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Road

• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Faith
  • Pain
  • Doubt

• But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together and share everything, talk about everything. Privacy make people lonely. Privacy make family fallen apart.

  

  Xiaolu Guo
  • People
  • Important
  • Live

• I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life.

  

  Jenny Lawson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely Londoners.'

  

  Joe Wright
  • Book
  • Lonely

• Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Depression

• If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • Children
  • Should
  • Praying

• If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Believe
  • Everything
  • Kid

• How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Empty

• I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

  

  Chris Kirkpatrick NSYNC
  • Happy
  • Single
  • Bitter

• Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

  

  Ann Demeulemeester
  • Lonely

• When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Time
  • Light
  • Dark

• When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • Work
  • Together
  • Struggle

• 'I'm no good, Teddy. Let's run away!''You're a very good boy. Your Mummy loves you.'Slowly, he shook his head. 'If she loved me, then why can't I talk to her?''You're being silly, David. Mummy's lonely. That's why she had you.''She's got Daddy. I've got nobody 'cept you, and I'm lonely.'

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Good
  • Why
  • She

• When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Live
  • Soul

• Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Friend

• I think there are barriers, but I think for me specifically, my barrier is being rejected from the kind of hip-hop elitists that think I'm not appropriating it, but just not serious about it. They think I'm a Lonely Island, Weird Al, you know - like a parody rapper. So that alienates me from a lot of things.

  

  Nora Lum
  • Serious
  • Weird
  • Lonely

• One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.

  

  Martha Beck
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

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