Top 100 Quotes About Be Lonely
#1. If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.
Sherry Turkle
#2. I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.
Barry Bonds
#3. 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
#4. You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely. You can be the most popular person in school, envied by every girl and wanted by every boy, and still feel completely worthless. The world can be laid at your feet and you can still not know what you want from it.
Hannah Harrington
#5. I think," said Masklin, "that maybe they're intelligent enough to be lonely.
Terry Pratchett
#6. Some journeys, we must take alone. The caterpillar does not judge itself for craving the cocoon. Do not fear the isolated path. There, you will not be lonely. You will meet yourself.
Vironika Tugaleva
#7. I have often said that loneliness is the predominant attitude in our culture. A person can be lonely in the midst of a party; he can be lonely in a crowd. Loneliness may be experienced by the rich and famous or the poor and unknown.
Billy Graham
#8. When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#9. He lay down beside the fawn. He put one arm across its neck. It did not seem to him that he could ever be lonely again.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#10. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#11. It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#12. Because there would be lonely days. And bad days. And days when I wondered what the hell I had just agreed to be part of. Because that was all part of the adventure too.
Jojo Moyes
#13. Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.
Abbi Glines
#14. Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
Ann Landers
#15. Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
Allison Burnett
#16. Seldom can the heart be lonely,
If it seek a lonelier still;
Self-forgetting, seeking only
Emptier cups of love to fill.
Frances Ridley Havergal
#17. I want you to know, that when you are lonely, I will be lonely too.
Lady Gaga
#18. One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.
Mort Sahl
#19. Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on.
David Byrne
#20. Somewhere there's a someone for me. Though I may be lonely now, I'll see it through somehow, to somebody's heart I know I hold the key.
Dean Martin
#21. I'd laughed this high-pitched, witchy laugh, and looked right at him. Mostly, I remember feeling vital and untouchable, like I was free and separate from him. I would never be him, and because of that, I would never be lonely or laughed at, and I would never have to worry about anything.
Brenna Yovanoff
#22. An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.
Brian W. Aldiss
#23. Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.
Winston Churchill
#24. The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete.
Johnny Weir
#25. To be lonely is to have lost the enjoyed fellowship with God
Sunday Adelaja
#26. You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.
Olivia Laing
#28. Cities can be lonely places, and in admitting this we see that loneliness doesn't necessarily require physical solitude, but rather an absence or paucity of connection, closeness, kinship: an inability, for one reason or another, to find as much intimacy as is desired.
Olivia Laing
#29. How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely ...
Joseph Delaney
#30. Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
Edward Carey
#31. One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.
John Andrew Rice
#32. Justin: " ... Everyone you love is dead. That must be lonely."
Lenah: "It is. But it's not something that defines me. I don't let it.
Rebecca Maizel
#35. You'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self
David Archuleta
#36. We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.
Morrissey
#38. A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone.
Anne Frank
#39. When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
Louis L'Amour
#41. It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.
Joel Osteen
#42. I'm so excited and lonely all at once. Just once. Not twice, because that'd be a couple, and couple's can't be lonely.
Jarod Kintz
#43. If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.
Audre Lorde
#44. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?
Pascal Mercier
#45. With Christ as your Savior and constant Companion, you, although alone, need never be lonely.
Billy Graham
#46. You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's one and only.
Anne Frank
#47. You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..
Alma Alexander
#48. I don't want you to be lonely, Kane." Avery gripped the phone tighter, the restaurant completely forgotten. He wished he could be there with Kane and have this conversation face to face.
Kindle Alexander
#50. You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
Yoko Ono
#51. There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again.
Haruki Murakami
#52. I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.
Gus Kahn
#54. I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows and bring me your razor blade to show me that you don't cut anymore.
Andy Biersack
#55. It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely
Liv Ullmann
#56. Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
Vladimir Putin
#57. We might be all alone in the world, en effet, but that doesn't mean we have to be lonely.
Aria Beth Sloss
#59. I liked to tinker with things, like Father. Make things with my hands. I liked to be alone, but not to be lonely. You were my only friend. You and Dutch.
Sharon Lynn Fisher
#60. You may be lonely in St. Valentine's Day, but you must know that love is like an air, it is everywhere! You shall find it in any day and anywhere!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
Adam Duritz
#62. It made her eyes fill up with tears, and she for a few more minutes starting it over, replaying it, watching his lips say the words: We can be lonely together.
Rachel Caine
#63. If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#64. The path to your destiny may be lonely, but courage is always your friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#65. To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.
Peter Carey
#66. My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And no idiots.
But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.
Orson Scott Card
#67. Leia experienced the vaguely guilty sensation that surfaced every time she realized that droid personalities were more than programmed conversational quirks. A computer core could be lonely. C-3PO could take pity on it.
Claudia Gray
#68. To be a human being means to be lonely.To go on becoming a person means exploring new modes of resting in our loneliness.
Robert Hobson
#69. Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
Elizabeth Bowen
#70. I'll go live in the woods," said Malone.
"You'll be lonely," said Sutherland. "Even Thoreau went to town in the afternoon to gossip.
Andrew Holleran
#71. My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms,
the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely
and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them
because I know that I am bored.
C.E.M. Joad
#72. When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams
#73. 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
#74. When a woman needs courage, for example, life might throw a few things at her to draw it out. When a woman needs to love herself, she might be lonely while life leaves her without external hearts to hide in.
Menna Van Praag
#75. Built to be lonely
to love the absent.
Find me
Free me
from this
corrosive doubt
futile despair
horror in repose.
I can fill my space
fill my time
but nothing can fill this void in my heart.
Sarah Kane
#76. You have a choice in life. Would you rather be lonely or miserable? I would rather be lonely. A lot of people are miserable in a marriage and they don't get along with their wife or husband and it's not worth it.
Robert Kiyosaki
#77. Arin imagined how, if he could, he would kneel before the boy he had been. He'd cradle himself to his chest, let the child bury his wet face against his shoulder. Shh, Arin would tell him. You will be lonely, but you' ll become strong. One day, you will have your revenge.
Marie Rutkoski
#78. Let your heart look
on white sea spray
and be lonely.
Love is a fool star.
You and a ring of stars
may mention my name
and then forget me.
Love is a fool star.
Carl Sandburg
#79. I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can. 'Flight Of The Conchords' was so wonderful because I had a family for two years.
Kristen Schaal
#80. Because at that moment, with the press of Rahim's lips to hers, with the touch of his tongue sending wildfire through her veins, she knew she would always be home here.
With this boy. In this moment. In this time.
And that her heart would never be lonely again.
Renee Ahdieh
#81. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
Rachel Kushner
#82. This can be lonely work, but it connects you to other people in ways that many of the things we could do with our lives do not.
Christine Sneed
#83. I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.
Paul Baribeau
#84. A strange prince, an even stranger night, she wrote later. I don't know if I ever want to see him again. But he seemed lonely too. Should we not be lonely together?
Victoria Aveyard
#85. Carmen: I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to do the leaving, and not have you ever leave me.
Ann Brashares
#86. Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it.
Eugene Mirman
#87. He'd been lonely, and I'd been lonely, but if we were together, we'd never have to be lonely again.
Jennifer Weiner
#89. It is easy to get into the flow of the world and just float along in the worldly boat with everybody else. One thing is for sure - no one will be lonely on the broad way. There will always be lots of company because many people are going that way. The
Joyce Meyer
#90. 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
#91. One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
John Fowles
#92. I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.
Jenny Holzer
#93. Let there be sleep after death...Let me not be lonely for her. Let my desire be as ashes, my heart as a stone lost in a dark river.
Christine Monson
#95. To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.
Jean Vanier
#96. That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.
Erik Paulsen
#98. Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely.
Arundhati Roy
#100. If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.
Maggie Osborne
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