Only When You're Lonely Quotes

#1. El, you are telling me to run away with a man to become his mistress."
"I am telling you to be happy. Even if it lasts only a little while. We must snatch what we can when we have the chance. Life is so very lonely when we don't.

Jennifer Ashley

#2. I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.

Slavenka Drakulic

#3. All people are lonely in some ways. Some people are lonely in all ways.

"Now, Voyager" - Movie, 1942.

Casey Robinson

#4. "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Samuel Johnson

#5. The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither.

Don Winslow

#6. Maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.

Babs Deal

#7. If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

Sherry Turkle

#8. Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

Larry Norman

#9. All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Johnny Ramistella

#10. I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

Iain Banks

#11. Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me

to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song.

Sanober Khan

#12. If you feel so lonely you could cry, take the focus off yourself. Think of how much God loves you, and find another person whom you can serve today.

David Jeremiah

#13. There was something so lonely about that moment, everyone around me completely involved in this thing I wasn't a part of, me with nowhere to go.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#14. But the Tsar of Death and the Tsar of Life greatly feared one another, for Death is surrounded by souls, and is never lonely, and the Tsar of Life had hidden his death away in a place deeper than secrets, and more secret than depth.

Catherynne M Valente

#15. When most artists walk offstage, they go to a lonely hotel room. I went home to my family. They were there before the show, during and after. It's been great. I never would have done it any other way. I wasn't gonna miss raising my kids. There was no way that was gonna happen.

Gloria Estefan

#16. I will kill in cold blood just to know the secret you keep in your lonely eyes.

Nessie Q.

#17. When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out."

Jenna Marbles

#18. What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have.

Charlotte Eriksson

#19. 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

#20. They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Kelly Osbourne

#21. The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#22. You are not alone if you are lonely,
When you feel afraid, you're not the only.

Matt Maher

#23. You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.

Anne Frank

#24. I could say it was the nights when I was lonely
and you were the only one who'd talk.
I could tell you that I like your sensitivity,
when you know it's the way that you walk.

Elvis Costello

#25. Depression is not madness, it's just depression, the loser version, the low-energy response to bad stuff that happens in your life. When you're depressed, you think you're the only one to have ever tasted this kind of hurt. And that lonely self-regard brings with it its own painful pleasure.

Ana Menendez

#26. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

Samuel Hoffenstein

#27. 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

#28. Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

Stephen King

#29. You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's one and only.

Anne Frank

#30. Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone,
And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood,
Remember only this of our hopeless love
That never till Time is done
Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one

Edith Sitwell

#31. Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate. Loneliness and desperation are only possible when we lose touch with our beauty within.

Bryant McGill

#32. When you love, you are not lonely. The sense of loneliness arises only when you are frightened of being alone and of not knowing what to do. When you are controlled by ideas, isolated by beliefs, then fear is inevitable; and when you are afraid, you are completely blind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#33. Chrisfield looked straight ahead of him. He did not feel lonely any more now that he was marching in ranks again. His feet beat the ground in time with the other feet. He would not have to think whether to go to the right or to the left. He would do as the others did.

John Dos Passos

#34. If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.

Sherry Turkle

#35. Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day.

Harry Kemp

#36. And it occurred to me; I was not part of the action. Oh God, I thought, I'm not an anthropologist. I'm the lonely voice-over narrator of adolescence. The bitter, voice-over voice.

Joanna Pearson

#37. It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.

Vera Caspary

#38. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better to be alone that unwelcome. I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals.

Mark Twain

#39. And yet we couldn't leave
it was if the rocks were holding us there. I mean, they were only rocks. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good.

Cynthia Kadohata

#40. If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
Crying to the moo-oo-oon,
"If only, If only.

Louis Sachar

#41. The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under.

Lemony Snicket

#42. 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

#43. Actual places, landscapes that exist[ed] simultaneously in both physical and metaphysical space ... true geographical refugia, verdant valleys dominated by protective mountain deities where people could seek solace as lonely pilgrims, or flee violence as a community in time of war.

Wade Davis

#44. I was so lonely." And Father Time said, "You were never alone.

Mitch Albom

#45. 29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.

James C. Dobson

#46. Once there was a moose, a very poor, thin, lonely moose who lived on a rocky hill where only bitter leaves grew and bushes with spiky branches. One day a red motor car drove past. In the backseat was
a grey gypsy dog wearing a gold earring.

Annie Proulx

#47. If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely.

Dalai Lama

#48. My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

Charles Bukowski

#49. There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.

Claire North

#50. If I keep myself busy I don't know how lonely I am. I only know how busy I am.

Kate McGahan

#51. Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.

Lara Biyuts

#52. The invigorating scent of the sea was nectar to her wearied body, the immensity of the lonely cliffs was silent and dreamlike. Her brain only remained conscious of its ceaseless, its intolerable torture of uncertainty.

Emmuska Orczy

#53. It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist, if only because the creative process is such a lonely one. I should imagine it must be all the more difficult for a woman.

Richard Yates

#54. I felt lonely then. This is the time when you need somebody. This is the time when it is good to have a wife, and children, to absorb your grief, to hold on to you. This is when you pay, and pay and pay, for pretending that you don't need anybody.

Rick Bragg

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

Graham Greene

#56. It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is.

Nanamoli Thera

#57. I get so lonely that at times, I literally think it might kill me.

Tillie Cole

#58. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

Barry Bonds

#59. I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

Ellen Glasgow

#60. Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

Corey Hart

#61. I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.

Oliver

#62. The long lonely cry of a suffering boy he could not help chilled Magnus through to the bone, like cold water seeping through to find a grave. Sometimes he thought they were all forsaken, every soul on this earth.

Even the Nephilim.

Cassandra Clare

#63. When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.

Richard Simmons

#64. Didn't know one another's names or ages or reasons for being there, and that was fine, because silence isn't the same when it's shared. Its sad and lonely sides are shunted off.

Dinaw Mengestu