Lonely Quotes
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He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.
Nicholas Sparks
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Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.
Ian Caldwell
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Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.
O. J. Simpson
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Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
Banana Yoshimoto
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Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Paul Tournier
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I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
Paul Theroux
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Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.
Sebastian Faulks
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They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?
Kelly Osbourne
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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
William Butler Yeats
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!
Carson McCullers
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I felt very lonely when they were all there.
Ernest Hemingway
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Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can. 'Flight Of The Conchords' was so wonderful because I had a family for two years.
Kristen Schaal
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Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
Martha Beck
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If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.
Philip Glass
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
D. H. Lawrence
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No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
Wendy Wasserstein
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One lonely voice still shouting labour!
Edward Heath
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If you haven’t already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.
Chuck Palahniuk
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The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--
C. S. Lewis
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The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
Charlotte Bronte
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It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.
Douglas Coupland
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All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone - my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music - ensemble music, not soloism - we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.
Catherine Drinker Bowen