Top 1200 Lonely At The Top Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

Everyone goes down a road that they're not supposed to go down. You can do two things from it. You can keep going down that road and go to a dark place. Or you can turn and go up the hill and go to the top - try to go to the top.

I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.

When you consider that a steelworker who's making $40,000 a year has virtually the same tax burden as someone who's making $400,000 a year, you see that there are inequities. This administration has used the tax code to accelerate wealth to the top. Most of the tax breaks have gone to people in the top bracket.

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands there in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

The lonely heart you see tonight will not give up without a fight.

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

There were times when i felt in a slump or lonely but i never thought of giving up

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.

Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

I think that we will come out on top as women, as people of color, as Muslims, as transgender people, as people who are part of the disabled community - I think that we'll come out on top.

The road can become a very lonely place. It's not what it's cracked up to be. Of course, it's what you make it.

I didn't enjoy growing up. I was lonely. That's probably my base level to feel like that.

Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

I always thought that I was going to be up there, whether it's was in the top 20, top 10, and I wasn't training hard, but I thought, you know... my strength, my presence, my talent would just keep me up there, without really training hard and really committing myself to the game.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

I think people come to my music just to feel less lonely.

She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can.

When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

I just find that I enjoy the music that feels like there's a journey to the top of this mountain, then you're at the top of the mountain finally with this magical feeling, and you're stoked because you made it, and you're up there, but there's a little bit of sadness to think of all that you lost along the way to get there. I guess I relate and enjoy the path and the struggle very much. Maybe it's the competitive spirit in me.

We live in a crazy time, and parents are very worried about their children's futures. They're getting all kinds of messages about children having to score at the top level on some test. The irony is, kids could score at the top and still not succeed at finding great employment or becoming a great person.

What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?

If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and to be alone in your own head.

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

There are few places more lonely than a crowded night club.

If you're on the top for 10 years it's going to seem like you have more crashes that someone on the top for three years. If you don't win as much in your ninth or 10th year it's going seem like you are on your way out.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

You don't feel accomplished when you get that first step on the ladder. You feel accomplished when you're on top of the ladder. I want to be on top, and I'm going to do everything in my ability to get there.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.