Top 100 Quotes About Very Lonely
#1. 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
#2. I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.
Peter Dinklage
#3. 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
#4. Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely ...
Alan Moore
#5. Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.
Ann Miller
#7. El, you are telling me to run away with a man to become his mistress."
"I am telling you to be happy. Even if it lasts only a little while. We must snatch what we can when we have the chance. Life is so very lonely when we don't.
Jennifer Ashley
#8. I came up with this really crazy idea, this really small personal story that takes place in a universe that we are familiar with. Rocky is retired, kind of set adrift. He's very lonely in his world. His life has gone by waiting for the inevitable. It's not 'Rocky 7.'
Ryan Coogler
#10. Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves.
Debasish Mridha
#11. I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.
Danielle Steel
#12. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.
Frank Bruno
#13. You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.
Yani Tseng
#14. Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
John Le Carre
#15. It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.
Henry Louis Gates
#16. Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
Peter D. Mitchell
#17. It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.
Diane Abbott
#18. For those that don't know, a human is a real bipedal life form of midrange intelligence, living a largely deluded existence on a small, waterlogged planet in a very lonely corner of the universe.
Matt Haig
#19. The thinkers in their youth are almost always very lonely creatures. . . . The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself least lonely, most positively furthered and most richly fed. - WILLIAM JAMES1
Niall Ferguson
#20. The original 'Guild Wars' was heavily instanced: you'd have these outposts where everybody was in, but as soon as you got out of town, it became very lonely very fast because you were going for an instance of you and your party.
Jeff Grubb
#21. I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me. Sometimes it is very lonely. But I know the lonely times teach me the most. I must let go in order to let anything in. No one can love me, for me. Take.
Sabrina Ward Harrison
#22. My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.
Marya Hornbacher
#24. Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.
Asif Kapadia
#25. Photography is a very lonely medium. There's a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that's why I'm a photographer.
Alec Soth
#26. I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.
Marisa Berenson
#27. It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Thomas Reed
#28. Nothing makes you happy in life except love... Neither the books you write or cites you see... I am very lonely... If I say that I want to be here in this city close to you until the end of my life would you believe me?
Orhan Pamuk
#29. At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.
Stephen Hawking
#30. My energies get used up quite quickly, and the psychic space I'm in when I write is a very lonely one, so I found that harder and harder to get back to.
Michel Faber
#31. So do not feel obligated to visit your grandparents, or call them, or be there for them in any way for Senior Citizens Day. They love you unconditionally, and are very lonely since all of their friends are dead, but that was never enough to make you care about them. So why should this holiday?
Mo Pete
#32. The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
George MacDonald
#33. We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#34. Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
Randeep Hooda
#35. Yes, it was difficult - making 'The Act of Killing' in particular was a very lonely process. No one really believed in it until very close to the end. But it was also a sanctuary. I was working in obscurity.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#36. You have the script in front of you. It doesn't involve your body. It's all about your voice. And its fast work. Its also very lonely work. You are by yourself. Very rarely are you in a group. You act with yourself, and someone else mumbles the lines back at you. If at all.
Jane Lynch
#37. I want to make sure that teenage girls know that if you decide to keep your child, you have to get an education. You have to have a plan A, B, and C. Make sure you have a good support system. If all those things are not in place, it's going to be very, very hard - very, very lonely.
Paula Garces
#38. People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place is this mystical, magical place. The desert is also a very barren place, a very lonely place, a very boring, uneventful place.
Richard Misrach
#39. For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.
Andrea Arnold
#40. I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be.
Lana Wood
#41. Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.
Lisa Graff
#42. There's a lot of madness in New Zealand because it's a mean and isolated little country. Anyone who feels too much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.
Chris Kraus
#43. ...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field
Joe Abercrombie
#44. ...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group
Shirley Jackson
#45. And that is one of the worst things about this life. As a liar, a pretend person, you cannot really truly ever be someone's friend. My American life, it is lonely. Often, it is very, very lonely.
Jillian Cantor
#46. I don't know how I got Michael. Maybe I just had a store credit from some other very lonely and shitty life.
Suzanne Finnamore
#48. Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.
Chad Harbach
#49. Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
Mervyn Peake
#50. Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and mind, I feel like the whole world is asleep and gone. It's very lonely. I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.
Amy Poehler
#51. I see a man who wants the world to think he has everything but is actually very lonely. You have a wild side, but you don't want that life anymore. I think you're on a journey to discover who you are, just like me, only you're more afraid of change than I am." Mason
Ruth Cardello
#52. Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#53. Find me the person who doesn't care a whit what anyone else thinks of them and I'll show ya someone very lonely. The trick, I believe, is to know whose opinion matters and whose doesn't.
Mia Sheridan
#54. I see no human beings. My phone never rings. I'm so very old and so very lonely. I hear from no one.
Harold Sala
#55. There's a part of everyone that needs to be taken care of. Denying it exists doesn't change the truth, it only makes you very lonely.
Katherine Allred
#56. At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.
Yani Tseng
#57. I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I've been writing, not a lot, but I'm inspired everyday.
Benjamin Clementine
#58. My name is Patricia Lauren Bordeaux, and I, like my creator before me, am a very lonely vampire.
S.C. Parris
#59. If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.
Joshua Jackson
#60. We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.
Hugo Weaving
#61. Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.
Woodrow Wilson
#62. I am often very lonely up on this hill by myself, and when Mr. Poe wrote to me about your troubles I didn't want you to be as lonely as I was when I lost my dear Ike.
Lemony Snicket
#63. It is true that the grief journey is very lonely, but it is also up to you to decide just how lonely you will make it.
Elizabeth Berrien
#64. Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all.
Charles M. Schulz
#66. He felt very lonely, yet there was a kind of pride in his loneliness.
Michael Ende
#68. You have to get very comfortable with the idea of being lonely. For all of human history, we've always run away from being lonely and now there are even more distractions. But that's the thing - if you're going to make the decision to rebel against your tribe, you're going to get very lonely.
Sherman Alexie
#69. I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely
E. V. Lucas
#70. Lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.
Susan Howatch
#71. I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.
Misty Upham
#72. Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
Vikas Swarup
#73. ... I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.
Louisa May Alcott
#74. Sometimes you don't realize how dependent you are on just a few people, and if they disappear, suddenly you can be thrown on your own resources, which may be limited, and you're really in a fix. So I think that's authentic to the experience that it might be very lonely.
Whit Stillman
#75. It's very lonely, feeling like an outcast. Like you are invited to a costume party, but you are the only one in a mask.
Ellen Schreiber
#76. A selfie is a proof that either we are very lonely or too self absorbed to ask others to take our picture.
Saru Singhal
#77. To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.
Arpad Busson
#78. My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
Etgar Keret
#79. Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.
Ben Horowitz
#80. Today worrying means to be occupied and preoccupied with many things, while at the same time being bored, resentful, depressed, and very lonely.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#81. Going with intuition a lot of times is very lonely. You're going on hunches - a little voice in here says, "Go this way." And your mind is saying, "You're crazy."
Stacy Peralta
#82. A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.
Jodi Picoult
#83. I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.
Etgar Keret
#84. Insanity is a very lonely and empty existence - it's painfully true. They may laugh and smile, and skip and dance, but behind all the faces there is hollowness like a bottomless pit. The living dead, depression is a terrible illness, so is psychosis, the mentally inflicted beyond cure.
Stephen Richards
#85. LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.
Scarlett Johansson
#86. Once the hag got upset she was apt to go downhill very fast and remember things like she was an orphan. People are often orphans when they are eighty-two, but it is true that when you have no mother or father you can feel very lonely at any age.
Eva Ibbotson
#87. If a shred of integrity fell into your soul, it would die a very lonely death.
Jasper Fforde
#88. I know a lot of very rich, very successful, very lonely women in Los Angeles, and I never wanted to be one of them.
Jaime Pressly
#89. 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
#90. This is probably very obvious but I feel very lonely. I miss the person I want to be with the most.
Jaejoong
#91. Even if it's dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do
David Klass
#92. Quick-wittedness can be very lonely.
Meg Rosoff
#93. Talk lives in a man's head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.
Beryl Markham
#94. Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.
Roxane Gay
#95. People who are slavish to a fantasy ideology become very lonely in the world. It's very alienating and sometimes reality is very threatening to this magical way of thinking. On the other hand, if it is a politician or leader that chooses for whatever reason to remain
Mark Ruffalo
#96. I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach students to value themselves and to not put others down.
Nick Vujicic
#97. When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
Jackee Harry
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.
Anne Bancroft
