Top 1200 Lonely People Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

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

I feel sometimes and in some ways like Linda Romanoli and Monica Velour; I feel marginalized because I'm in my fifties. If you went online and you look at some of the blogs, which one can do on a lonely night, it's pretty startling what people will say about you just because you're in your fifties.

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

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

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

Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.

To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what you're working on. You have to learn to listen to your instincts. Absorb other people's advice, opinions, or whatever it may be from the outside world, but at the end of the day, you have to be true to whatever it is that you're trying to say in that work.

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

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

That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

It's a lonely world, being independent, and they can come away with the idea that if Lloyd Kaufman can make movies with people getting their heads squashed, with hard-bodied lesbians, women masturbating with pickles, graphic diarrhea, and singing and dancing chicken zombies - if he can do that for 40 years and put his kids through Yale, Columbia, and Duke - if that idiot can do it, anybody can do it.

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

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

Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

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.

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.

maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.

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

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

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

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.

I believe that the spirit of God enters into the details and if we ask for guidance we will be led to the places where we can learn most fully because we can be most joyful. If I'm in a place that's lonely, I think God has one or two things to say. Extend your hand in service so that you might meet people or go somewhere else - or both.

LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.

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

I am lonely. I clean up the house, put kids to bed and there I sit.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

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

If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

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

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

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

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

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

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

The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

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

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.

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

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

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

Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.

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

It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.

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

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

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

The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

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

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

in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one's self and try to grow as a cricketer.

Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.