Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
Everyone says love hurts, but that's not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Everyone confuses these things with love, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it was hard to breathe, knowing how small my world could be. Maybe in San Francisco it wouldn't feel like the… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work. I'm not afraid of hard work, especially… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
You have the script in front of you. It doesn't involve your body. It's all about your voice. And its fast work.… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back… — William James Copy Share Image
Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that… — Matthew Shultz Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. Albert Einstein — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The face can speak of a thousand emotions and it can easily mask what the heart truly feels. So don't be fooled… — Dream Loneheart Copy Share Image
pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge TV person. I don't like having the noise when I'm doing other things unless I'm really lonely, and… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
