Lonely Quotes

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot

Loneliness, Distrust

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Christopher Morley

Beauty, Pain, Mind

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad

Loneliness, True, Word

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

Feeling, Nothing, Real

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Tecumseh

Friend, Give, Place

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis

Life, Money, Dream

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
Mason Cooley

Grow, Cats, Anxious

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
Tori Amos

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.
Susan Hampshire

Stupid, Parents, Understand

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
Jules Verne

Life, Everything, Sea

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Time, Snow, Whole

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Alone, Loved

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

Together, Sometimes, Story

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
Martha Beck

Personal, Few, Absolutely

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.
Lady Gaga

Time, Leave, Somebody

A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
Karl Pilkington

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

God, Trying, Play

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
Richard M. Nixon

Job, Public, Realize

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
George Byron

Love, Music, Nature

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
Jason Schwartzman

Respect, Alone, Loneliness

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?
Courteney Cox

Time, Friend, Friends

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
Yoko Ono

True, Sense, Artists

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.
David Bowie

Time, Person, Feelings

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
Roy Orbison

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
Christopher Morley

Attention, Eating, Spaghetti

I'm perpetually lonely.
Lady Gaga

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Sometimes, Talk, Road

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
John Masefield

Down, Again, Her

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
Jules Renard

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
Alain de Botton

Find, Talk, Anyone

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