Lonely Quotes

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

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

I want to do good work, but having kids and a life outside of that is important, too. If you don't have anybody around who loves you, then what's it all for? You're just lonely in the end.

But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.

New York is tough on lonely people.

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.

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

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

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?

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

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.

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

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.

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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.

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

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

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.