Lonely Quotes
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I had always known that I was 'different.' I didn't really understand it all until I got older. But there was always this foreboding sense something was 'wrong.' I never knew how to talk about it. I just remember feeling terrified about what would happen if someone found out. It was a very lonely feeling.
Chelsea Manning
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Go to sleep, you stunning sky, gently creep, cunning byA quiet hum is amplified by your thumb that you suck dryA hundred raging waters snare the lonely sighHold your breath and clasp at Cassiopeia.
Joanna Newsom
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We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."
Helen Keller
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I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.
Jim Varney
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The journalist researches a story. The novelist imagines it.What’s funny is, you’d be amazed at the amount of time a novelist has to spend with people in order to create this single lonely voice. This seemingly isolated world.It’s hard to call any of my novels 'fiction.'
Chuck Palahniuk
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I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.
Carson Daly
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I love to see the old heath's withered brakeMingle its crimpled leaves with furze and ling,While the old heron from the lonely lakeStarts slow and flaps its melancholy wing
John Clare
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I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.
Carson Daly
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People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.
John Burnside
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[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.
N. T. Wright
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The workplace can be a good place to find opportunities to socialise, but what if you don't meet any like-minded people there, or what if you work alone? Is it, somewhat counter-intuitively, easier to find yourself lonely in a city than in a small town or village?
Gail Honeyman
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Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Frankly, it can be lonely at the top when it comes to driving diversity.
Pierre Nanterme
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In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
Walker Percy
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Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored.
O. J. Simpson
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I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.
Lillian Russell
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
Leo Buscaglia
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What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.
Arno Penzias
