Quotes About Sad And Lonely

#1. 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

#2. There are three choices for a woman like me:
1) Be sad and lonely
2) Be the one who is cheated on
3) be the other woman

Jodi Picoult

#3. If love was only for the perfect, what a sad and lonely world it would it be. We are the culmination of every good and bad choice we've ever made. Your mistakes have made you into an incredibly fierce and loving woman; one I am

Ruth Cardello

#4. My story is a sad and lonely one, and beautiful and lively and joyful. It's not perfect; it is what it is.
This is a story.
But it is not a fairytale.

Eugenia Argerami

#5. As he reached the door of the chapel and turned back for a last look, he saw that the Virgin too was sad and lonely; the most alone human being God ever put on earth.

Irving Stone

#6. I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Caitlin Moran

#7. I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#8. But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

Janice Dickinson

#9. When you are feeling sad and lonely because you are single, remember that there are a lot of people stuck in bad relationships who wish they could be in your shoes.

Pamela Cummins

#10. 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

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

Claire North

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

Sherry Turkle

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Lemony Snicket

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Mitch Albom

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Charles Bukowski

#27. 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

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

Kate McGahan

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

Lara Biyuts

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Graham Greene

#34. 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

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

Tillie Cole

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

Barry Bonds

#37. 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

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

Corey Hart

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

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

"Now, Voyager" - Movie, 1942.

Casey Robinson

#45. "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

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

Don Winslow

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

Babs Deal

#48. 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

#49. 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

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

Johnny Ramistella

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

Iain Banks

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

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

Sanober Khan

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

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

Nessie Q.

#58. I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.

Peter Dinklage

#59. I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#60. Sol had not known he was lonely until he met Sarai.

Dan Simmons

#61. One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.

Agnes Denes

#62. It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

Neal Shusterman

#63. Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief.

Herman Melville

#64. The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Douglas Coupland

#65. I do want someone, need someone. You're right. And, when I'm with you, I feel like I'm a better person. I feel happier. Less alone, less lonely. But it's not as simple as that, is it? Being with someone?

Naomi Campbell

#66. And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate ... just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice.

Anne Holm

#67. All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

Anne Lamott

#68. If I had to do it over again, I would have danced like Buenos Aires.
I'd be a helicopter leaf, a snowflake falling. I would have stayed there spinning wild and lonely across the dark, lonely sky.

Addie Zierman

#69. As beautiful and dangerous and lonely as you,

Nalini Singh

#70. When love is lonely, its because you have not found the love of your love. Even though you are being love.

Janet Wilson

#71. Where's the hope that can abate
The grief of hearts thus desolate
That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage,
And mitigate the gloom of Age?
Religion bids the tempest cease,
And, leads her to a port of peace;
And on, the lonely pilot steers
Through the lapse of future years.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#72. Every time a child organizes and completes a chore, spends some time alone without feeling lonely, loses herself in play for an hour, or refuses to go along with her peers in some activity she feels is wrong, she will be building meaning and a sense of worth for herself and harmony in her family.

Barbara Coloroso

#73. I cry when I'm lonely. Reiko says it's good I can cry. But feeling lonely really hurts.

Haruki Murakami

#74. It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#75. If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

Heather O'Neill

#76. Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

John Powell

#77. The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

Theodore Roosevelt

#78. Mother: "I couldn't stand his friends from medical school. They were all pompous and awkward. They knew how to memorize but they didn't know how to be human. Rochester was cold and ugly. Everything there was the same color. I was incredibly lonely." She

Eula Biss

#79. Just because I am alone, does not mean I am lonely. I am not you.

Tsugumi Ohba

#80. Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. It did the same thing that playing the piano had done when he was frightened and lonely. It took him into another world where only beauty existed and where he was sage from hatred and disappointment and death.

Nancy Farmer

#81. Everyone always believes him to be the person they think he is, which in truth is no one

Kate Walbert

#82. Each of us knew that the journey to exaltation would be long, strenuous, and sometimes lonely, but we also knew that we would not travel alone. Heavenly Father provides all who fulfill the prerequisites of faith, repentance, and baptism with a companion and guide, the Holy Ghost.

Keith K. Hilbig

#83. He was so lonely that he laughed at himself.

L.M. Montgomery

#84. We can be lonely together

Rachel Caine

#85. After you went, a low wind warbled through the house like a spacious bird, making it high but lonely. When you had gone the love came. I supposed it would. The supper of the heart is when the guest has gone.

Emily Dickinson

#86. I don't know how many years it's been since I last slept with my husband. I was faithful, stupid and so awfully lonely that I'll gobble you up if you're nice to me. Or kill you because I can't bear it.

Nina George

#87. I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#88. Loneliness can't be seen. It's a worse feeling that can only be felt, We experience a lots of feeling in our life but loneliness is such a feeling that kills us from inside yet we can't help it. We only see our self being destroyed day by day,yet nothing to do.

Debolina Bhawal

#89. The hideous thing is this: I want to forgive him. Even after everything, I do. A baby before my 17th birthday and a future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but somehow forgot.

Katie Cotugno

#90. I don't want to interact with people but I do get lonely.

Wesley Eisold

#91. Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself ... know what you want.

Janet Fitch

#92. Reading means never being bored and never being lonely. My books are my friends; they always provide me with a place to go.

Satinder Bhatti

#93. I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

Carson Daly

#94. I don't have to kill myself, living my life is just the same.

Aaron Scheerer

#95. I've been so lonely without you, you dick'
'Don't call me a dick'
'You are, we both are... Got a mental idea me um, why don't we fucking grow up? God, god I love you lol, I can't be with anyone else.

Shane Meadows

#96. Strangely enough, 'I've Seen All Good People' is, I think, the second most played Yes song on American radio after 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart.' And then I think 'Roundabout' is third.

Chris Squire

#97. Sometimes I sit and stare out at the people walking by, wondering if they've felt as I've felt, trapped, alone, but guiltily content in the knowledge that I will never know another's thoughts, and therefore can feel special due to my unique loneliness.

Moryah DeMott

#98. Alone in my bedroom, I realized I couldn't remember the last time I'd truly laughed.

Sarah J. Maas

#99. I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

William Wordsworth

#100. Love was for dummies, soulmates were the creation of pulp-fiction writers; romance was craved by ageing, lonely cat owners. Successful relationships were built on rationality and compromise.

Karan Bajaj