Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.
Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.
I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own.
Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian can't be the greatest company." "We don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble," said Magnus.
The role of a founder-CEO is extremely lonely. You can't always be fully forthcoming with your board or investors or employees.
I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!
...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.
My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.
I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.
When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.
It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
I was lonely as a young teenager and my only companion was an acoustic guitar. I would bring it with me on modeling trips.
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.
I always wish for the audience to feel less lonely when they leave the room. To have the film as a companion, as a shelter for themselves.
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.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.
A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.
L.A. has great business opportunities for my film and TV production company and acting career, but it can be a very lonely place.
Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.
Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
O, though oft oppressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside,
If I but remember only
Such as these have lived and died!
To live as true children of God means to love our neighbour and to be close to those who are lonely and in difficulty
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.
I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.
If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.
arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.
It can be tough and lonely on the road, but at the end of the day we get to play professional tennis for a living, and I wouldn't change it for the world.
It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you've never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.
It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'
The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.
I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded.
The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.
You will always have a tough fight when you are expressing yourself and not impressing people. The path of truth is a lonely journey.
I kind of feel like a global citizen - wherever I go, I have friends, so I don't get too lonely.
When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--
Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.
I was feeling kind of lonely and started singing All alone at the end of the evening, and the bright lights have faded to blue.' And it went from there.
If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.
There is no job feels as lonely as that of a fighter but there is also no bond closer than the one he shares with his corner.
Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.
Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.
What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?
People know who I am, but I'm feeling so lonely in the middle area, because I feel like I should be at the top.
Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.
We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.
I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can 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.
This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it.
Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.
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