Lonely Quotes

2232 Lonely quotes by 1437 unique authors

The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate. — Robert W. Service
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged… — Tracy Chapman
One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel… — Agnes Denes
Become aware of your aloneness - which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because it is your… — Rajneesh
The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills. — William Wordsworth
And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last. — William C. Bryant
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet. — Abraham Lincoln
The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly… — William James
We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away… — Alexander Smith
Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting… — Edwin Arnold
We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When… — Sidney Jourard
I cry a lot. I'll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely. — Drew Barrymore
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For… — John Clare
Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints... — Joni Mitchell
All the lonely people, where do they all come from? — Paul McCartney
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt… — Harry Kemp
How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues… — Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person. — M. Scott Peck
Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone. — David Steindl-Rast
I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense… — Alfred Stieglitz
Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time. — Alexander Theroux
A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care… — Rudolf Steiner
I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely. — Penelope Cruz

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