Quotes About Loners

#1. Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

Pauline Kael

#2. America trembles in fear of loners, yet Charles Manson is a social butterfly.

Anneli Rufus

#3. I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.

Benedict Wong

#4. A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best buddies.

Michael Shannon

#5. He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.

Lyn Nofziger

#6. I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it would be magnified by association.

Gail Carson Levine

#7. Two Windclan apprentices were wandering toward them. Fireheart twitched his ears to warn his friends they had an audience.
"Oh, yes," meowed Ravenpaw, raising his voice. "We loners eat Clan apprentices whenever we can catch one.

Erin Hunter

#8. In a wacky way, she felt as if they belonged to each other. Two stray, bad-ass loners who didn't know how to handle people.

Jennifer Probst

#9. I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

Peter Drucker

#10. Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.

Anneli Rufus

#11. I have no Native American heritage, but I had decided as a child that my spirit guide animal would be a bear. We were both loners and fighters, at least that's how I looked at it. I don't know how the Great Bear felt about it, as I had never given him the option to say no.

John Conroe

#12. I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that ultimately make them a better person in a way.

Craig Gillespie

#13. A good imagination may be the best friend of loners.

Kirsten Smith

#14. There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.

Florence King

#15. And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.

Louis Aragon

#16. But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

William Manchester

#17. My world, which once seemed so broad and full of possibilities, began to shrink as my need for security grew. Why could that be? It must be a quality we inherited from when our ancestors lived in caves. Groups provide protection; loners die.

Paulo Coelho

#18. Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners

Dean Cavanagh

#19. Under my bed, my shoebox of shame, and when I felt anxious or lost I would pull it out and touch all of my socks. All loners. All waiting to be reunited with their twin. I eventually outgrew the shoebox ... and by that I mean there were too many socks.

Tarryn Fisher

#20. Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.

Wendy Cope

#21. When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

Mark Shand

#22. The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

Anneli Rufus

#23. People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

Katharine Hepburn

#24. Loners can play well with others-the right others,

Anneli Rufus

#25. Don't characterize loners as aloof or crowd seekers as arrogant. They may be living out their story.

Max Lucado

#26. Yet introverts and loners are not one and the same thing.

Anneli Rufus

#27. We're basically loners. If I didn't have the kids, I'd be alone a lot, and I'd be okay with that. I don't need to be entertained by people. I want my space, so I understand you feeling trapped.

Bijou Hunter

#28. It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you're not playing games.

Jane McGonigal

#29. There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.

David Brooks

#30. Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

Paul Theroux

#31. People souls - perennial loners. They're loners like stray stars.

Antoni Lange

#32. We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.

Anita Roddick

#33. But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

Sarah Vowell

#34. The loners are always trouble. You know that.

Alex Scarrow

#35. Makers?" said Toby. Jaysir nodded.

"We're not loners, you know. There just weren't any on Wallop. We love to get together, we just refuse to engage in social relations that are based on material inequity.

Karl Schroeder

#36. Strong creatures don't form herds.
Have they never heard of a lone wolf?
Cats are cute, and wolves are cool.
So in essence, loners are cute and cool.

Wataru Watari

#37. Starting this day, she was no longer going to be quiet, a wallflower no more.

Magenta Periwinkle

#38. She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

Eleanor Catton

#39. Maybe this is who I really am.
Not a loner, exactly.
But someone who can be alone.

Gary Shteyngart

#40. The code of a world he'd never been invited to join.

Andrew Kaufman

#41. Um, you don't have to join me, but if you're looking for a table, there are a couple good seats over there. He nodded toward the far end.

J.M. Richards

#42. You only grow when you are alone.

Paul Newman

#43. One of the things that confirmed Hyacinth's suspicion that America was an evil, lonely place was that people were islands unto themselves. And so when Avril drifted away, there was no friend or neighbor or pastor or coworker to reach out to and ask after her child.

Naomi Jackson

#44. In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring ...

Andre Gide

#45. The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.

Tenacious D

#46. You may say you won't interfere with another person's soul, but you do - merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#47. I often wish I could just passively watch people without being expected to participate myself, like television.

M.E. Thomas

#48. I wanted so badly to be seen, yet my pride prevented me from obviously asking to be seen. I did not want to be seen by demand, but rather by their choosing.

Magenta Periwinkle

#49. We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.

Anneli Rufus