Lonely Quotes

• As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Thinking
  • Yourself
  • Finding

• It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.

  

  Paul Merton
  • People
  • Real
  • Home

• You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Solitary

• Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Man
  • Company
  • More

• You know, you have everything you want and nobody to share it with, and that's kind of lonely. It was tough for me to admit that. I'm good now though, between this role and the guy, I'm literally the happiest I've ever been.

  

  Danneel Ackles
  • Kind
  • Tough
  • Share

• Oh, no, I think I'd die on my own. I'd be so lonely. Even at home, I'm lonely. I sit in my room and sometimes cry. It is so hard to make friends, and there are some things you can't talk to your parents or family about. I sometimes walk around the neighborhood at night, just hoping to find someone to talk to. But I just end up coming home.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Die

• If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Fun
  • Lonely
  • Bored

• Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Existence
  • Lonely

• I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to always see the glass as half-full.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Able
  • Half
  • Glasses

• I sit beside my lonely fire And pray for wisdom yet: For calmness to remember Or courage to forget.

  

  Charles Hamilton Aide
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Forget

• They all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It is a little lonely, but that's how it is.

  

  Nobuhiro Nishiwaki
  • Journey
  • Lonely
  • Paths

• When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Friendship
  • Lonely

• I'm lonely, but everyone is lonely So at least I know I'm not alone.

  

  Eyedea
  • Lonely
  • I Know

• I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wanted to be on the road. It's a lonely existence, but it is what it is.

  

  Erik Griffin
  • Existence
  • Lonely
  • Comic

• Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Lonely

• Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

  

  Sue Grafton
  • People
  • Men
  • Lonely

• I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. and they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stress

• Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Suffering
  • Sick
  • Lonely

• Working on 'Lonely, I'm Not' – I love the material so much, and it's spring in New York, so I'm walking home whistling every day.

  

  Topher Grace
  • Love
  • Home
  • Walking

• Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.

  

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay
  • Lonely
  • Hearts
  • Breaking

• I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

  

  Russell Baker
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Messages

• I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Alone
  • Lonely

• Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • People
  • Genius
  • Inspire

• I'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow. Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Play
  • Million
  • Worlds

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