Quotes on Lonely

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no plans at all - and the lostness of that, compared with the clear ambitions of my friends (marriage, children, law school), sometimes shamed me. Other times in my mind I defended such a condition as morally and intellectually superior - my life was open and ready and free - but that did not make it less lonely.

The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint bluish furrow down each side of his nose, and this led to the eye sockets, and surrounded them in a pensive shade. The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotions except love.

You have to be lonely to be a writer

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!

It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.