Lonely Quotes

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
Edna Ferber

Business, Past, Living

It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.
Diane Abbott

Child, Bringing

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

Life, Time, Money

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.
Lillie Langtry

Life, Put, Year

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman

Talking, Lonelier

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Path, Free, Honor

I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.
Jay London

Here, Road, Driving

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
Bill Murray

Life, Family, Mother

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
Truman Capote

Life, Regret, Childhood

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
Aaron Carter

Bad, Friend, Down

I mean, any time an actress gets to work with another actress, it's like, 'Oh, there are two of us in a movie! How are you? Let's sit in the hair chair together!' We're lonely women.
Jennifer Garner

Work, Time, Women

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
Melissa Etheridge

Freedom, Soul, Sweet

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.
Courteney Cox

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
Paul Theroux

Expensive, Principled

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

Old, Lady, Inside

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?
Arthur Smith

Long, Miserable, Meet

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.
Shirley Henderson

Life, Time, Home

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
Anne Rice

Pretty, Training, Become

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
Rob Sheffield

Family, American, Kid

When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!
Rob Sheffield

Girl, Loser, Her

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.
Michelle Williams

Rather, Bed, Table

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.
Mia Wasikowska

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
Emilio Estevez

Job, Friend, Writing

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.
Kim Alexis

Business, Mind, Speak

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
Patty Duke

Time, Alone, Idea

Being on the road is kind of lonely.
Dave Attell

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.
Bruce Willis

Writing is a lonely business.
Sherman Alexie

Business, Writing

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.
Ai Weiwei

Art, Travel, Long

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.
Hugo Weaving

Alone, Become, Outsiders

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