Quotes About A Lonely Road

#1. If people treat you like shit, you treat them like shit right back. They won't like it, but they'll respect it. It's a lonely road. Although, truth be told, I enjoyed being alone. Life was much clearer.

Tijan

#2. I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign ... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#3. It's a lonely road for those of us who choose to be remarkable, and the path of convention can sometimes be appealing. That path is paved with safe lives, middle of the road monotony, and little chance of failure. But where's the fun in being like everyone else out there?

Chris Guillebeau

#4. We all have our own road to walk. Whether rocky, curving, straight or smooth, what good is a lonely road? It's when we run and intersect with other roads that defines our road. When road meets road do we get direction, and choices to cross into another life.

Anthony Liccione

#5. Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.

William Osler

#6. I was out on a lonely road that stretched forever into the darkness. I wanted to run, to get away from him, but it was so dark, I was afraid of where I was going.

Christina Dodd

#7. Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.

Joni Mitchell

#8. Like one who, on a lonely road,
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And, having once turned round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread. -
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.

Mary Shelley

#9. You may find that the pursuit of happiness is at times a lonely road. Don't give up. Stay the course!

K.J. Kilton

#10. Doing the right thing is often a lonely road

Adam Copeland

#11. The Empire State, a lonely dinosaur, rose sadly at midtown, highest tower, tallest mountain, longest road, King Kong's eyrie, meant to moor airships, alas.

Vincent Scully

#12. Along the road you travel, may the miles be a thousand times more lovely than lonely.

Douglas Pagels

#13. Why do I take this lonely road, nobody here to walk with me? So I start fresh all over again why won't you just comfort me?

Sara Quin

#14. The road is a lonely, exhausting, invigorating, and living thing, but the wonder of seeing things we never would have dreamed of makes it worth the price we pay to leave the safety of home

Zak Bagans

#15. Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#16. A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.

Jay London

#18. I do whatever comes my way. But I get burned out on stage. It's a lonely world. I think part of the romanticism about being on the road is you get to meet a lot of - my mom once told me, "You've probably got a woman at every port." Like I'm a pirate. Obviously she doesn't know her son that well.

Zach Galifianakis

#19. The road to death is a lonely highway, and longer than it apears, even when it leads straight down from the scaffold, by way of a rope; and it's a dark road, with never any moon shining on it, to light your way.

Margaret Atwood

#20. The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?

Artie Lange

#21. A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely, and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place.

Albert King

#22. I really love playing music with other people. It's more fun to be on the road with others. It's kind of lonely out there when you play on your own!

Tracy Chapman

#23. If you don't take charge of your transition, it is a dark and lonely road

Brian Stann

#24. There's no narrative to your life, no arc, no reward for achieving all of the things you want. That kind of thinking is a recipe for a you-centric world view and is a very lonely road. Focus instead on the role you play in the stories of others..

Justin McElroy

#25. How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.

Ray Bolger

#26. I love single life! Why would it be boring? I mean, I get to travel around and have loads of girls screaming at me, so it's definitely not boring. However, it can get lonely on the road, but I'm sorted I've got good people around me.

Olly Murs

#27. I lived in my head most of the time - a lonely and messed up place - and suddenly there was a higher force called Allah I could lean on. A companion, who'd travel with me this road less trodden... My life. Islam means surrendering yourself to God.

Fadia Faqir

#28. The road is a nasty place and lonely.

Cher

#29. Being on the road is kind of lonely.

Dave Attell

#30. The road of grief is often long and lonely and many stones need to be moved out of the way, but it is not without its lighter moments.

Louise Suzanne Boyd

#31. It was lonely in that damn motel room. When I'm on the road, I usually have a dog with me. Animals I like. People I learned a long time ago to do without.

Dan J. Marlowe

#32. 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.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#33. Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.

Tom Glazer

#34. To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first.

Henry Kissinger

#35. At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.

Jack Kerouac

#36. Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#37. The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. Follow Me, pg. 11

David Platt

#38. When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.

Mark Ruffalo

#39. Florida Highway, 1986. Lonely slum. I passed through on low wheels. It was hot outside. Shacks, gas stations that didn't work, dead corn in fields, children on the road, retarded and dulled by the heat. Two girls waved as I passed.

Henry Rollins

#40. Dubai is ... after all,
a lonely, transitory place.
It's hard to maintain relationships
when people are always coming and going.

Ameera Al Hakawati

#41. Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Ayn Rand

#42. Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.

Carole King

#43. The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

Buck Owens

#44. On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.

Melissa Etheridge

#45. I'm still looking for someone
Who said they were here for me,
And I thought I was once there for you.
But when troubles are nearer than friends,
And the road comes to an end,
What could I do?
I wish I could fly away like you.

Margo T. Rose

#46. I know some lonely houses off the road
A robber'd like the look of,
Wooden barred,
And windows hanging low

Emily Dickinson