Top 1200 I Am Lonely Quotes & Sayings

People sometimes ask me if I do not feel lonely on holidays. How can I feel lonely when I live in the constant awareness of God's presence? I love and I enjoy being with people, but when I am alone I enjoy being alone with God.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is wild and beautiful and busy and steeped with God that the question is hard to answer.

I am not a lonely person. I am happily married and not looking for companions on social media.

Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds... Lonely trees are not lonely!

Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. But I'm also doing really well. I'd be a robot if I said I didn't feel moments of anger, of hurt, of embarrassment... [but] You joke and say, 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger'.

Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

I've grown used to being lonely over the years, so I don't seek to change it. But aren't there many people who are lonely?

Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely.

It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.

Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless. And lonely is healing if you make it.

I am plenty lonely in hotel rooms.

I want you to know, that when you are lonely, I will be lonely too.

I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.

I am never lonely or discouraged or tired. When you live in constant communion with God, you cannot be lonely. When you perceive the working of God's wonderful plan and know that all good effort bears good fruit, you cannot be discouraged. When you have found inner peace, you are in contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired.

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.

I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.

All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more.

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

Just because I am alone, does not mean I am lonely. I am not you.

I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?

...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

Who am I? this or the other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling? Or is something within me still like a beaten army fleeing in disorder from a victory already achieved? Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine. Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!

Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. But lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.

What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?

In real life, I am not a lonely person; I have lots of good friends and am active socially. But there are certain aspects of my life when I have felt very alone, utterly alone, and one of them is when I am performing on my own.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

I'm lonely, but everyone is lonely So at least I know I'm not alone.

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.

I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.

I sit and feel lonely. Sitting and feeling lonely is something I am a spectacular success at. I can do it for hours. Everyone is good at something.

He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.

I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top.

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car. I'm only lonely after dark. I'm only lonely when I watch my TV. I'm only lonely occasionally.

If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.

Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,-- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: "I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so!" If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?

They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny people on a tiny little earth suspended in an endless void that echoes past stars and stars of stars.

It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.