Top 1200 Lonely Path Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

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

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

I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely.

Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame.

The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very shocked at times that he had been chosen for this path, but he also understood that he was chosen for this path. He had several moments of acute doubt as to if he was up for the task - when people were injured in the protests he took it very personally, let alone when they were killed.

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

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

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

I'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely Londoners.'

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.

[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

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

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

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

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

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

A lot of the time, when I swim, I close my eyes because it is definitely lonely.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The louder he talked of his honesty, the quicker we counted the silverware.

The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you to attain understanding. Thanks to right concentration, you realize right awareness, thoughts, speech, action, livelihood and effort. The understanding which develops can liberate you from every shackle of suffering and give birth to true peace and joy.

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process... We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.

I don't want people to be lonely. I would like them to find partners.

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!

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

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

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

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

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

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

Boxing's a very lonely sport. That ring is the loneliest place in the world.

I think I was a pretty anxious dreamer, maybe a fundamentally lonely kid.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

Stand-up's hard. It's one of the hardest things in the world, and it's really lonely.

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

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

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

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

You could sit on top of a mountain praying for hours a day and still not make it if you had no love in your heart. You could spend your life feeding the poor and still not make it because your karma required you to bear and nurture children. The path home to God is different for every person. Only communion with your Higher Self will reveal your path to you.

When you suppress your true feelings or follow a path that isn’t really yours, you aren’t living your authentic self. Your soul made a plan for this life before you incarnated, and that plan is your true life purpose. Acting in line with your life purpose is one way to live in the light, another step on the path toward expanded consciousness.

Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.

I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.

My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing.

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

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

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

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

I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.

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

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

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.