Being Lonely Quotes

There are always so many things happening [to us] at one time. We read Isherwood's A Single Man in class, and we had to ask: How is he talking about all this stuff: teaching, being lonely, all his memories, all at the same time? He's telling us: This is where my head is at, let me be straightforward. And of course, try be artful about it.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.

Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state… something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?

It's no fun being lonely.

I need you to protect me from being lonely. Don't fight for me. Be with me.That's what I need."-Bianca to Lucas

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

I've grown used to being lonely over the years, so I don't seek to change it. But aren't there many people who are lonely?

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.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

Nothing big ever came from being small.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

Being is the great explainer.

There's a big difference between being a loner and being lonely. I'm far from lonely. My day is full of things I enjoy, starting with my show. Any time my work is going well and I have a relationship with a woman that's pretty solid, that does it for me.

Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.

I look for a thematic idea running through my movies and I see that it's the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize that all my life I've been an outsider, and above all, being lonely but never realizing it.

Women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities...How long a time it took me after my divorce to understand that being alone is not the same as being lonely.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.

The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

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

I feel like the men who end up in my videos, their biggest crime is being lonely. They're not violent, they're not scary people, they're just men who keep to themselves and have a hard time being social.

Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you.