Lonely Quotes

• In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact, the stoner hadn't even finished moving out when she told me not to worry, because she already had someone better lined up for me. I was just lonely and desperate enough to endure a four-month celibate long distance relationship with a guy who read 15 chapters of the Bible and prayed for two hours every day and expected me to follow suit. He wanted to give our hypothetical children Bible names and for us to move to Korea to become missionaries.

  

  Kate Madison
  • Long
  • Children
  • Relationship

• Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Fighting
  • Loneliness
  • Cheer

• We need to stay together, to spread the truth like religion. It's a lonely, scary road, and we've got to walk it together.

  

  Carolyn Chute
  • Truth
  • Together
  • Road

• I think it's a fascinating thing to see how lonely people are in this world and what they're looking for. It's a universal concept. So, it's something that interests me and I'll probably revisit it if I get the chance to do the child soldier film because I think it's one of the most important scripts I've written. It's just too dark to do as a film right now. I need to do something a bit different.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

  

  Vanessa Kirby
  • World
  • Lonely

• History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.

  

  Edward Bloor
  • Earth
  • Path
  • Unique

• Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Team
  • Player
  • Baseball

• I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• I don't want to interact with people but I do get lonely.

  

  Cold Cave
  • People
  • Want
  • Lonely

• No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Lonely

• No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

  

  Christopher Morley
  • Attention
  • Lonely

• It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Black
  • Study
  • Intellectual

• Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Lonely

• your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.

  

  Carol Bly
  • People
  • Soul
  • Trouble

• The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed

  

  William James
  • Admiration
  • Worthy
  • Rational

• The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Alone

• I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Thinking
  • Bed
  • Tables

• What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Identity
  • Beast
  • Galaxy

• A lonely impulse of delight

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Contentment
  • Delight
  • Impulse

• I know a lot of very rich, very successful, very lonely women in Los Angeles, and I never wanted to be one of them.

  

  Jaime Pressly
  • Women
  • Lonely

• When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.

  

  Dana Reeve
  • Forget
  • Something
  • Someone

• A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Life
  • Lonely

• When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.

  

  Michael Zaslow
  • Mean
  • Feelings
  • Romantic

• All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Enough

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