Lonely Life Quotes

My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.

I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.

If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life.

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see it. The only thing you can do is to guess, and to believe.

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature

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

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

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

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

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

Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress

In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. ... The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.