Feeling sad or lonely isn't a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you'll cross the line into self-pity.
I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely.
It can be a lonely place when you are injured. You miss being out there with your team-mates and just experiencing the highs and the lows.
There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.
Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.
To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?
I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.
I love my husband, and I wanted to support him, but the transition to Washington has been my hardest experience. I felt very lonely and isolated.
Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions.
One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star
I know some lonely houses off the road
A robber'd like the look of,--
Wooden barred,
And windows hanging low
If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
Seldom can the heart be lonely,
If it seek a lonelier still;
Self-forgetting, seeking only
Emptier cups of love to fill.
I listen to a lot of 80s stuff, like Owner of a Lonely Heart, by the group Yes. And Mr. Misters Broken Wings.
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.
I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.
Working on 'Lonely, I'm Not' - I love the material so much, and it's spring in New York, so I'm walking home whistling every day.
You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. “Not really.” I’m just sad, I want to say. And I’m lonely.
I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.
Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?
It's a lonely position and those are the margins you play in as a goalkeeper - you simply cannot make mistakes because you will be punished.
And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely.
Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
India's middle-class knows better than most how hard and lonely the struggle of an ordinary man can be.
Won't someone please answer my prayers before I'm old and gray. I've been lonely too long and all my family thinks I'm gay.
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.
All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?
Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.
And I love working, that's my life. I'm a lonely person anyway. I don't like being around a load of people so I can work on myself and think.
What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.
I listen to a lot of '80s stuff, like 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' by the group Yes. And Mr. Mister's 'Broken Wings.'
I turned my head and saw the wind,
Not far from where I stood,
Dragging the corn by her golden hair,
Into a dark and lonely wood.
That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.
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.
No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
Thats been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, thats like, youre alone.
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
Join me? Patting the spot beside him, he inclined his head. “Pretty please? I’m lonely all by myself over here.
Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.
No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]
'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.
... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.
I have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are insecure.
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.
I feel lonely at times, but I don't want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I'm not the type of person who just does things to do them.
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