Lonely Quotes

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast.

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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

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

Touring gets really lonely.

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.

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.

You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

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.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

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.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

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

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.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

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