Top 100 Quotes About Lonely
#1. My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.
Samuel Pepys
#2. Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.
Elisabeth Elliot
#3. My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this?
Mark Z. Danielewski
#4. We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.
Philip Slater
#5. Lupita thought that people who didn't dance were selfish and lonely.
Laura Esquivel
#6. The other [picture] was a ruined village made up of rubble and cracked houses and trees raked clean of bark. Just looking at it,I could almost hear a lonely wind blowing; the palpable silence of a place robbed suddenly of life.
Ransom Riggs
#7. 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
#8. His small compliments and offhand remarks formed a new scripture, and in breathless conversations and lonely, dream-drunk nights they built whole theologies from them.
Carey Wallace
#9. A very few lonely pioneers make their way to high places never before visited ... they create the living conditions of mankind and the majority are living on their work.
Kristian Birkeland
#10. The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
Patrick DeWitt
#11. When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk with me, from room to sorrowful room, making the whole rambling structure of wind and emptiness not quite as scary, as lonely as it was before.
Jandy Nelson
#12. In some ways they had come to know themselves better. In this lonely world of ice and emptiness, they had achieved at least a limited kind of contentment. They had been tested and found not wanting.
Alfred Lansing
#13. I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.
Jenny Lewis
#14. When you're working very hard you're not lonely; you are the whole damn world.
Shelby Foote
#15. Should you ever feel too lonely ... listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.
Simon Van Booy
#16. My heart stole back across wide wastes of years To One who wandered by a lonely sea, And sought in vain for any place of rest: 'Foxes have holes, and every bird its nest. I, only I, must wander wearily, And bruise my feet, and drink wine salt with tears.' Poem:
Oscar Wilde
#17. They passed lands that had no name, where fens of mirror pools stretched into unknown distances, thousands of fragments of sky sprinkled across this bastard offspring of earth and sea, lonely birds calling out over the desolation, and Yarvi breathed deep the salt chill and longed for home.
Joe Abercrombie
#18. London is not a good place to be when you are sad: so crowded it makes you feel lonely.
Moe Cidaly
#19. You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence ... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.
Chris Terrio
#20. My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.
Stephen Lang
#21. He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.
Tim LaHaye
#22. I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.
Adam Duritz
#23. And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.
Portia De Rossi
#24. And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.
Anne Rice
#25. Now he tried to find strength to tear himself away and go on a lonely journey
for vengeance. If once he could go, his anger would bear him down all the roads of the world, pursuing, until he had him at last: Gollum. Then Gollum would die in a corner.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#26. And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.
Libba Bray
#27. It was extremely difficult to suppress my emotions, because my character in' A Girl at My Door' goes through so many infuriating situations. It was a lonely process having to portray someone that acts tough but is deeply hurting inside and is unable to express that.
Bae Doona
#28. Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#29. It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both at the same time.
Lee Child
#30. I'm so lonely I don't even want to be with myself anymore.
Dido Armstrong
#31. It is exceptionally lonely, being Draco Malfoy. I will always be suspected. There is no escaping the past.
J.K. Rowling
#32. These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.
Steven Morrissey
#34. Along the road you travel, may the miles be a thousand times more lovely than lonely.
Douglas Pagels
#35. When you're an introvert like me and you've been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It's a real release.
Lana Del Rey
#36. O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.
Aimee Semple McPherson
#37. The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.
Tess Gerritsen
#39. There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands
Margaret Craven
#40. 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
#41. If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.
Tom Perrotta
#42. If you are leading others and you're lonely, then you're not doing it right. Think about it. If you're all alone, that means nobody is following you. And if nobody is following you, you're not really leading!
John C. Maxwell
#43. Day after day there rose a smell which Lucy found very hard to describe: sweet- yes, but not at all sleepy or overpowering, a fresh wild lonely smell that seemed to get into your brain-
C.S. Lewis
#44. 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
#45. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Paul Simon
#46. Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
Jimmy Cannon
#47. I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.
Susan Smith
#48. In the end," Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, "it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That's what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It's lonely. It's impossible. It's all-consuming." It is what it is.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#49. You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.
Sandra Cisneros
#50. I can write, because writing - unlike choreography, architecture, or conquering kingdoms - is a thing you can do when you're lonely and poor, and have no infrastructure, i.e., a ballet troupe or some cannons.
Caitlin Moran
#51. I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable
Henry Miller
#52. Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.
Louis L'Amour
#53. An expression crept over Asher's face that was not unlike that of a lonely child being told that Santa had not in fact been strangled to death in an alley in New Orleans
Warren Ellis
#54. There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.
Wes Anderson
#55. I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.
Mary Martin
#56. Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
Allison Burnett
#57. When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
Jackee Harry
#58. All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone
my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music
ensemble music, not soloism
we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#60. Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. Where are the men?" the little prince at last took up the conversation
again. "It is a little lonely in the desert ... "
"It is also lonely among men," the snake said.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#62. Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.
Barbara Pym
#63. There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves. This is the way He dealt with me at the time. It was like a bad dream.
Hermann Hesse
#64. Having cancer is a lonely experience. It is the one time in your life that you cannot ask those closest to you, 'What should I do?' It's too heavy a burden to place on another person. This is your life, your decision, and cancer kills.
Suzanne Somers
#65. If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.
Louise L. Hay
#66. I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
Amy Tan
#67. One day as I sat musing, sad and lonely without a friend, a voice came to me from out of the gloom saying, 'Cheer up. Things could be worse.' So I cheered up and sure enough - things got worse.
Joan Howard Maurer
#68. I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.
Rashida Jones
#69. I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.
Robin Hobb
#70. The road is a nasty place and lonely.
Cher
#71. Sometimes when we say things, we hear silence. Or only echoes. Like screaming from inside. And that's really lonely. But that only happens when we weren't really listening. It means we weren't ready to listen yet. Because every time we speak, there is a voice. There is the world that answers back.
Ava Dellaira
#72. They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#73. Hello toes," I say. They're good toes. I like that they're long and slender and not the slightest bit stubby. I wiggle them, ten unstubby waves that say, "And hello to you, Human Host!"
Except they're toes. I'm talking to my toes. Maybe I'm not bored ... maybe I'm lonely?
Lauren Myracle
#74. [O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#76. Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
Oliver Goldsmith
#77. Losing love is lonely. Losing it because of something you did is deathly.
Karina Halle
#78. The more complicated the movie, the more complex the budget, the more lonely it gets. There's a point where ... who do you go to, other than prayer and friends?
Michael Bolton
#79. Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.
Abbi Glines
#80. Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame.
Ozzy Osbourne
#81. If you are lonely, you feel separated from everybody. If you are in solitude, you feel you are in contact with the entire universe.
Siren Waroe
#82. A lonely man with the truths is more crowded than the crowds without the truths!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. Among equals gratitude is reciprocal; her gratitude to these Titans, who called themselves average and were unaware of their own tremendous strength in being able to live, only made her feel more lost, inept, and lonely than ever.
Joanne Greenberg
#84. In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger
a stranger ... A stranger, and lonely ...
Anton Chekhov
#85. 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
#86. Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!
John Clare
#87. Monasticism is really based on the idea that if you leave people, you leave the spirit of the world. But you do not. You can leave the world in a physical sense, you can leave the crowd and the people; but there in your lonely cell the spirit of the world may still be with you.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#88. Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.
Rumi
#89. Nat flung her arm over my shoulders and Alex leaned against my other side, the prohibition against touching gone for a few brief seconds as everyone collapsed together in a heap.
But I wasn't wulfen. I was still lonely.
Lili St. Crow
#90. I know you're feeling worried,
But I promise I'm okay.
You think I'm missing all the fun,
But I don't want to play.
And I'm not feeling lonely;
Yeah, I've got a friend with me.
I'm just keeping this corner company.
Margo T. Rose
#91. It's hard in L.A. not to go out, it gets lonely. Being an actress is lonely, and I never want to be alone. I hate sleeping alone.
Lindsay Lohan
#92. Sometimes everything passes fast before you while you are sitting and sometimes everything sits while you are passing fast before them! In both cases you feel lonely!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. People are ... Full of contradictions. They're lonely. And then they're not. They're missed. And then they're not.
Kou Yoneda
#94. Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.
Mother Teresa
#95. Lonely is when the language outside
isn't the language inside
and words are made of just 26 letters
Holly Thompson
#96. It was a lonely life to lead, for I had nothing to think of, having been made such a little while before.
L. Frank Baum
#97. 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
#98. Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.
William Zinsser
#99. Our mind is a crazy nightclub of cacophonous sound filled with strange images and one-night stands: our mind tells us lonely, loveless tales that leave us frightened but really have no lasting power
Lauren Roedy Vaughn
#100. Just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they're alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they're lonely.
Jason Daniel Chaplin
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