Top 1200 Lonely World Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

I kind of feel like a global citizen - wherever I go, I have friends, so I don't get too lonely.

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness

You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world," that is, there is no "you" that is real or in any world. "The world is in you" means that the world is in your "mind" and is nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced imaginings.]

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

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.

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

I was living alone, so I'd get quite lonely and running became a way to combat my loneliness and de-stress.

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could ?nd no meaning.

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

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

O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died!

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

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.

There is no job feels as lonely as that of a fighter but there is also no bond closer than the one he shares with his corner.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

We've got a planet in which we don't want to have everybody having sex, and most people are lonely anyway.

If you see a lonely homeless, ask this question: Where the hell the society is? And here is the answer: It is rotten and enjoying somewhere!

Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place

Since China has a population of 1.1 billion, it won't feel lonely even if it becomes the only socialist country.

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

…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.

I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.

See, that's the thing about L.A.- When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.

Even at a young age, when you start to do well, it's tough because it's lonely on top, and I wasn't the most popular.

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

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

His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.

Just because someone is single doesn't mean they're lonely. Some people are in relationships and they've forgotten what happiness is.

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

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

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.

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

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.

Along the road you travel, may the miles be a thousand times more lovely than lonely.

I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.

I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

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

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

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

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

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

Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

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

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

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