Lonely Quotes

Single life is the best life until you get hit by lonely nights.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

No, enjoy it while you can.” Esther said as she walked out alone.

~ Barry Gray

He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

You have got a sharp tongue, haven't you honey? You'll have to watch it or you'll go to a lonely spinster's grave.

~ Margaret Way

the code of a world he'd never been invited to join.

~ Andrew Kaufman

She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but she was as human as anyone else. She was lonely, too. Lonely in a way that perhaps only single girls fresh from small Midwestern towns know. Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly....perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness- the ache of the uprooted plant.

~ Stephen King

There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

~ Lauren Destefano

I've been trying not to think about the things I wanted but couldn't have.I figured life must be about what you can't have.Some part of me has given up wanting anything. Why? I'm human, aren't I?Even though I knew that this was pointless.Why did I fall in love?

~ Kou Yoneda

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

~ David Levithan

Lazy people live lonely lives.

~ Habeeb Akande

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

They don't know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness inside of me and turns into love and light.

~ Tara Brown

Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

~ Pico Iyer

I would die of lonely.

~ Dean Koontz

It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. 'How do you get to West Egg village?' he asked helplessly. I told him. Ans as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He has casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

As I stood on the lonely backroad, I'm sure I heard birds, kookaburras, laughing ...

~ Steven Herrick

Writing is a lonely business.

~ Sherman Alexie

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

~ Edna Ferber

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

~ Martha Beck

Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

~ Jason Schwartzman

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

~ Augusten Burroughs

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

~ Theodore Zeldin

In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne.

~ Michael Leunig

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

~ Frank Mccourt

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

~ Jimmy Cannon

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

~ Mother Teresa

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

~ Bette Davis

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

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.'

~ George Michael

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

~ John Le Carré

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.

~ Kristen Bell

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

~ Bill Murray

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

~ Douglas Coupland

Lonely women destroy themselves lonely men threaten the world.

~ Victor Lavalle

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

~ Conor Oberst

I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.

~ Juliette Lewis

I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.

~ David Talbot

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

~ Mason Cooley