Lonely Quotations | Page 2

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

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.'

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

If I only dated actresses, Id be a very lonely man.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

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.

People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don't know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

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

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.

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

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

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.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

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

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

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.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.

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

Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the grandchildren, too.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window,

I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.

Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.

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

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.

If I have food in the house and I'm laying in bed, I go, 'I bet that Captain Crunch is lonely in the cupboard.'

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

Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely.

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.

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.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

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.

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

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

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.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

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

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.

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

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

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

The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete.

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

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

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

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

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

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

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

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

Being on the road is kind of lonely.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

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.

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

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.

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.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

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.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

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.

I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click, move, click. All that. I love all forms of animation, but there is something unique and special to stop-motion: it's more real and the set is lit like a set. But I think it's also a kind of lonely and dark thing to want to do.

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.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

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.

Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.

I'm on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.