Top 1200 Lonely Places Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

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.

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

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

A man can be in two different places and he will be two different men. Maybe if you think of more places he will be more men, but two is enough for now.

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

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

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

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

It's a lonely position and those are the margins you play in as a goalkeeper - you simply cannot make mistakes because you will be punished.

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

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 most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.

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

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

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

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.

You will always have a tough fight when you are expressing yourself and not impressing people. The path of truth is a lonely journey.

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.

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

Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?

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

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

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

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.

Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

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

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

There is a regulation of behavior on the Internet and in cyberspace, but that regulation is imposed primarily through code. The differences in the regulations effected through code distinguish different parts of the Internet and cyberspace. In some places, life is fairly free; in other places, it is more controlled. And the difference between these spaces is simply a difference in the architectures of control--that is, a difference in code.

'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.

I tell you what: I bet Jerry Jones would not trade places with a 75-year black man in Chicago. I bet Joel Klatt would not trade places with a 30-year old black guy from Chicago or Watts. I bet he wouldn't do that. You know why? It's great to know that I'm white and a male in America.

As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions.

Working on 'Lonely, I'm Not' - I love the material so much, and it's spring in New York, so I'm walking home whistling every day.

India's middle-class knows better than most how hard and lonely the struggle of an ordinary man can be.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.

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

It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.

I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you’ve escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in. So no, they’re not escapist. They’re escape.

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

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

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

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

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.

No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]

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.

To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?