Lonely Quotes

• 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

• 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

• Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Dream
  • inspirational
  • Lonely

• I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.

  

  Jay London
  • Road
  • Driving
  • Lonely

• Never let yourself get too hungry, angry, lonely or tired, otherwise you’ll do something you’ll regret.

  

  Alan Lee
  • Regret
  • Lonely
  • Hungry

• I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

  

  Candy Darling
  • Fool
  • Lonely
  • Silly

• 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

• 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

• There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

  

  Alfred M. Gray
  • Lonely

• Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Together

• 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

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

  

  Cold Cave
  • People
  • Want
  • Lonely

• Jubal had a frame Fashioned to finer senses, which became A yearning for some hidden soul of things, Some outward touch complete on inner springs That vaguely moving bred a lonely pain, A want that did but stronger grow with gain Of all good else, as spirits might be sad For lack of speech to tell us they are glad.

  

  George Eliot
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Pain

• Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

  

  Kim Alexis
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Lonely

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

  

  Christopher Morley
  • Attention
  • Lonely

• I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.

  

  Dan Mazer
  • Writing
  • Interesting
  • Enjoy

• 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
  • Rational
  • Worthy

• Relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery - a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of. 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
  • Kind
  • Mystery

• Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society completely forgotten, completely left alone.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • School
  • Home

• 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

• Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Hurt
  • Comfort
  • Loneliness

• 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

• We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Friendship
  • Lonely
  • Loneliness

• Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Lonely

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