Lonely Quotes

2232 Lonely quotes by 1437 unique authors

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. — Tennessee Williams
I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself. — Bruce Willis
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...… — Kate Winslet
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. — Thomas Wolfe
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. — Tom Wolfe
I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely. — Caitlin Moran
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says:… — Helen McCrory
They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space."… — Madeleine L'Engle
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye… — Sherman Alexie
Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now? — Emily Bronte
Real reading is a lonely activity. — Harold Bloom
It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but… — Terry Pratchett
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not… — Ayn Rand
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. — Douglas Coupland
Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't… — Nuala O'Faolain
When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters,… — Margaret Atwood
...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like… — Kim Edwards
but i know blue only blue lonely blue without you — Jonathan Larson
Lonely was much better than alone. — Toni Morrison
Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone. — Mervyn Peake
I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely. — Curtis Sittenfeld
The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski… — Terry Pratchett
It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled… — Albert Camus
When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos. — D. H. Lawrence

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