Top 1200 Lonely People Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.

Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.

The role of a founder-CEO is extremely lonely. You can't always be fully forthcoming with your board or investors or employees.

What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?

If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

I was feeling kind of lonely and started singing All alone at the end of the evening, and the bright lights have faded to blue.' And it went from there.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

L.A. has great business opportunities for my film and TV production company and acting career, but it can be a very lonely place.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

To live as true children of God means to love our neighbour and to be close to those who are lonely and in difficulty

Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

I have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are insecure.

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it.

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian can't be the greatest company." "We don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble," said Magnus.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.

There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

I was lonely as a young teenager and my only companion was an acoustic guitar. I would bring it with me on modeling trips.

I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.

When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

It can be tough and lonely on the road, but at the end of the day we get to play professional tennis for a living, and I wouldn't change it for the world.

Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work.

It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you've never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.

Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave.

It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.

I always wish for the audience to feel less lonely when they leave the room. To have the film as a companion, as a shelter for themselves.

I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded.

Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going.

One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had something just like that happen to them. Subtly her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. It was just too lonely. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care. Many people with cancer talk about the relief of having someone just listen.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

Feeling sad or lonely isn't a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you'll cross the line into self-pity.

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.