Top 100 Loner Quotes
#2. I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.
Barry Goldwater
#3. I'm just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I'm happy. Not sad. I'm just shy and nervous.
Clea Duvall
#4. As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.
Elfriede Jelinek
#5. One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.
Agnes Denes
#6. I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.
Kerry Washington
#7. I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
Arthur Ashe
#8. I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.
Peter Hammill
#9. What would you call your decorating style?" I asked. "Boring-bachelor? Or messy-loner? He looked over at me. "More like distracted-about-my-detainee-girlfriend," he said.
Katie Kacvinsky
#10. I was a high-school dropout; I was a loner.
Rene Russo
#11. But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.
Elizabeth Berg
#13. Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
Eric Clapton
#14. Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one of many and where my skills are equally as important and valuable.
Lissie
#15. I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.
Richard Pryor
#16. One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one's satisfaction.
Andrea Seigel
#17. Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.
David Samuels
#18. I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him.
George Carlin
#19. Need, brother. You say you're not a joiner, but this is a hell of a world to be a loner in.
Kit Rocha
#20. As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.
Jill Sobule
#21. I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties.
Paul Wesley
#22. I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider always.
Shahzia Sikander
#23. Deep in my heart I know I am a loner. I have tried to blend in with the world and be sociable, but the more people I meet the more disappointed I am, so I've learned to enjoy myself, my family and a few good friends.
Steven Aitchison
#24. Drake is my own personal suicide, and the sooner I except that, the sooner I can come to terms with my loner status at the school library
Addison Moore
#25. He wasn't a loner, but he liked doing things his way. Compromise wasn't a priority for him.
Stephen W. Frey
#26. When I run across something so incredible that I want to show it to someone else. The problem is, when you make the choice to be a loner, you lose that privilege.
Jodi Picoult
#27. Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.
Kristin Hannah
#28. No man will be kept in hell loner than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage the prison doors will open and there will be rejoicing among the hosts who welcome him into a better state.
James E. Talmage
#29. I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.
Anthony Hopkins
#30. I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Karen Armstrong
#31. Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my car every day in my senior year. I went to ballet. I was a ballerina, so I was very focused on that. You kind of have to be. That was two-thirds of my week, going to ballet class.
Olesya Rulin
#32. What appealed to me about 'The Loved Ones' script was that it had this really theatrical element to it. I thought that the scope of this character is so broad, and there is so much fun to be had playing a crazy teenage loner. It was a great way to explore the delusions a mind can create.
Robin McLeavy
#33. I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.
Clea Duvall
#34. The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.
Anneli Rufus
#35. Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.
Keri Russell
#36. I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
Gary Oldman
#37. It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.
Keanu Reeves
#38. He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. And thus it was that an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe.
Walter Isaacson
#39. I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself ... I suppose that is what you call a loner.
Diana Vreeland
#40. Friends want to know everything about you, and I couldn't tell them about Maryanne or bring them back to the flat to hang out. It was just easier to be a loner than to deal with the questions.
Samantha Young
#41. I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
Valerie June
#42. Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
Billy West
#43. Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.
Lucille Kallen
#44. In high school, she'd been the loner fat girl and I'd been the asshole jock. There had always been something between us; we had gotten on so easily. I remember being both confused and upset that when I'd finally experienced that thing everyone called chemistry, it had been with her of all people.
Rose Fall
#45. My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.
Hayley Atwell
#46. The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that.
Tana French
#47. Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
Albert Einstein
#48. For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored.
Blythe Danner
#49. I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
FKA Twigs
#50. It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.
Ben McKenzie
#51. I'm a loner. I like to hide a lot.
Kay Lenz
#52. I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
Mika.
#53. Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
Jodi Picoult
#54. I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#56. Be honest, but don't hurt anyone's feelings be independent, but not a loner be smart, but not a nerd be sexy, but not a slut be skinny, but don't barf up your burger be funny, but not to hide some other deficiency.
Wendy Mass
#57. You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit into your life. I'm a loner, not the first lady.
Christine Feehan
#58. Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
Earl Butz
#59. He can act a bit loner-ish, but I think he's some serial killer waiting to happen; he's just his own best company sometimes. And he's comfortable with that. I guess there's nothing wrong with that.
Rachel Cohn
#60. You're a loner in body, mind, and soul. A writer who spends a day of solitude in the office is plagued by a mind that travels with the body. The work never stops.
Bruce Obee
#61. Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.
Martin Filler
#62. I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.
Michelle Paver
#63. Lowell's an odd duck," Peterson said. "He's a loner. He reads books.
Lee Child
#64. I'm as apolitical as possible. I don't hang out with too many people. I'm a loner. For the most part, when I show up, I read a book or work on my computer, and stay out of everybody else's way.
Eric Bischoff
#65. I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.
Markus Zusak
#66. All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.
Ray Comfort
#67. I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward.
Guillermo Diaz
#68. A lot of times when they catch a guy who killed twenty-seven people, they say, He was a loner. Well, of course he was a loner; he killed everyone he came in contact with.
George Carlin
#69. I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.
Kevin Conroy
#70. I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.
Zosia Mamet
#71. I was this weird loner kid who got drunk by himself all the time.
Gerard Way
#72. I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.
Rooney Mara
#73. I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.
Kim Elizabeth
#74. As a fair skinned blonde, I disappeared into the background. I've always been a loner, so I suppose dyeing my hair red was a way to say, 'I'm here, I exist, I'm a human being and you can't just push me aside.'
Deborah Ann Woll
#75. I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.
Hunter S. Thompson
#76. The swish of the fish elongates my face, and my mouth distorts as if in midscream. "But you called me a loner."
"I called you lonely. There's a difference.
Shelley Coriell
#77. In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.
Jennie Garth
#78. There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life.'
Mark Vonnegut
#79. I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.
Dick Van Dyke
#80. Put 'em on and be yourself, mister alienated loner steppenwolf bemused distant meta-izing technocrat rationalist fucking shithead.
Neal Stephenson
#81. You know, there is only one letter's difference between lonely and lovely," I told him once when he was down. "There is only one letter's difference between loner and loser," he retorted.
Joey Goebel
#82. I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.
John Milius
#83. I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story; it's fine for me.
Henry Rollins
#84. They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she stopped being the novelty, the random American, he would recognize who she really was -- a nerdy bookworm, a happy loner -- and move on.
Jennifer E. Smith
#85. There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I think [I don't do that] partially because I'm still a loner on the guitar and banjo.
Sam Amidon
#86. I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.
Justin Timberlake
#87. I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.
Gary Numan
#88. I don't want you to think I don't love my extended family. I do. I just don't want to be around them. Some of this is because I'm a loner. Some of this is because at family gatherings you are forced to face the short genetic distance between you and a clinically insane person.
Jim Gaffigan
#89. I don't actually like people. I'm a loner and if I had my way I'd just walk my dogs every day, never talk to anyone and then die.
Tony Adams
#90. Their father blamed me! And RiverClan cast me out, too. Can you imagine what that feels like? To be rejected twice? To be a loner when all you tried to do was to love?
Erin Hunter
#91. He was somewhat of a loner by temperament
because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people.
Colin Dexter
#92. At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone ... I became a loner in my own mind ... I decided I'd rather be alone.
Andy Warhol
#93. I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
Stephen King
#94. The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
Esther Dyson
#95. Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.
Philip O Ceallaigh
#96. We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.
Anneli Rufus
#97. From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?
Ann Coulter
#98. I've never been the popular kid in school. I've been a loner my whole life. That's why I have a very low profile.
Mr. Muthafuckin' EXquire
#99. Maybe this is who I really am.
Not a loner, exactly.
But someone who can be alone.
Gary Shteyngart
#100. I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.
Brad Pitt
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