The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.
Peter D. Mitchell

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
Mason Cooley

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.
Josiah Royce

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

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.
Buck Owens

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

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

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
John Milton

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Lorraine Hansberry

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
Doug Coupland

The writer works in a lonely way.
Irwin Shaw

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

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
Alfred M. Gray

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?
Kelly Osbourne

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

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Pierre Charles Baudelaire

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
Eddy Arnold

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

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