Lonely Quotes

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

~ Kyrie Irving

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

~ Audre Lorde

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

~ Ai Weiwei

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

~ Khalil Gibran

I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.

~ Asif Kapadia

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

~ Kelly Osbourne

I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.

~ Randy Moss

When I go in the studio, I put myself into a place where I'm feeling something I want to portray, which is often being sad, lonely. But as soon as I'm starting to make something, it's when I'm the happiest. Ever. I think that comes out at the same time, so there's that juxtaposition.

~ Jamie Xx

When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.

~ Richard Simmons

I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.

~ Kate Christensen

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

~ Caitlin Moran

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.

~ Janice Dickinson

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

~ Anthony Browne

It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it's much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I'm pretty sure the agency's divorce rate is rather high.

~ Valerie Plame

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

~ Charlie Chaplin

When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.

~ Michael Zaslow

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

~ Russell Baker

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

~ Josiah Royce

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

~ Jude Law

My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.

~ Kim Edwards

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

~ Tori Amos

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

~ Albert Einstein

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

~ Joseph Conrad

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

~ Henry Rollins

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

~ Mason Cooley

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

~ Robert Plant

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

~ Roy Orbison

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

~ Judy Garland

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

~ Paul Tournier

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

~ Mortimer Adler

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

~ Phil Mcgraw

Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.

~ Kate Winslet

We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.

~ Bill Murray

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

~ Douglas Coupland

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

~ Martha Beck

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

~ Nancy Reagan

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

~ Patty Duke

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.

~ Erik Paulsen

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

~ Tatjana Patitz