I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.
I was quite lonely because I didn't have a boyfriend or many friends, so I started spending my weekends doing races. Then I progressed to a half-marathon and I actually enjoyed it!
I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.
I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)
We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely. I wouldn't have some of the coolest friends that I'm so glad I've gotten to know.
The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.
I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wanted to be on the road. It's a lonely existence, but it is what it is.
Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do
I love L.A. Some people arrive with big expectations and are inevitably disappointed, but I can audition in the day, which can be gruelling and lonely, but then gig and be creative in the evenings.
When I'm by myself - composing or writing film scores - it's very lonely. I'm just sitting by myself in the studio.
They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?
Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.
And the more you spend in blessing
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to you glad.
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.
I think it's always worth remembering that people sending off mean tweets are probably pretty lonely people.
Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.
Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.
No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.
It's lonely being stuck in a hotel in London for two nights. Even a couple of nights away from the children is awful.
I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.
Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.
[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
So many Hollywood actresses become successful and then just keep on going - they miss out on having a partner and a baby and end up lonely.
The fate of the bridges is to be lonely; because bridges are to cross not to stay!
Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.
During the initial two years in Mumbai, it was lonely and awkward for me, till I made some friends in South Mumbai.
Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.
I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
I am around people I love to be with all day; I'm not lonely. The simplest, happiest pleasure is being on my couch with my dog, Neville. Nothing is more comforting or soothing.
When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.
A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head.
Being Stephen's carer was such a struggle, and it's a lonely job looking after a disabled person. Thinking back, I honestly wonder how I got through it.
A composer's a pretty lonely life. When people talk about premieres and movie star - no. We sit in a dark room and spend a lot of time alone.
London can be quite lonely and a hard place to live, but I do love it. It is where I forged my way to live. It is where I call home.
Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.
Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.
I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?
Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
It can be lonely as a manager out there. You are on the field, yes, but you are not really on the field with them. Yet I have to share with my players my experiences and my knowledge.
And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.
Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine.
Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California
The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.
I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it. But writing is very lonely.
Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.
There are a lot of lonely people on the planet that have a lot of money in their pocket and no place to go on a Friday night.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
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