Best Lonely Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life.”

People Made Whole Party Successful Lonely Surprise Whole Life Bunch Thrown Monkeys Ponies Surprise Party

Author:Jenny Lawson

“Lonely is the night when you find yourself alone.”

Night Lonely Profound Finding Yourself

Author:Billy Squier

“It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely places. It is the quiet places where it is easiest to feel eternity.”

Feels Fall Nature Buddhism Easier Quiet Lonely Eternity Wave Snow Capture Solitary Crash Coast Quiet Place Lonely Places

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Writing is an incredibly lonely job.”

Writing Jobs Lonely

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.”

Writing Voice Existence Lonely Sticks Depressing What You Love

Author:Chris Terrio

“I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.”

Thinking Stills Important Literature Differences Internet Lonely Function Disappear Website Slate Salons

Author:David Talbot

“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.”

Source: The Diary of Anne Frank

“There is no loneliness when you meditate, you feel eternity. How could you ever be lonely? You just feel God's love for you and that sustains you. It's totally clear; it's part of every aspect of your being.”

Feels Clear Meditation Loneliness Buddhism Aspect Lonely Eternity God's Love Being Me

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.”

Ifs Trying Lonely Be Good Good Times Outrageous Being Lonely

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds... Lonely trees are not lonely!”

Light Song Company Tree Wind Moon Eternal Bird Shadow Lonely Clouds Lonely Trees

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!”

Men Would Be Tree Bird Lonely

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.”

Girl Fun Easy Lonely Checks

Author:Tommy Lee

“It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.”

Kind Made Joy Passion Next Pleasure Rooms Habit Bed Lonely Eavesdropping

Author:Ben Marcus

“People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.”

People Want Littles Book Bits Company Little Bit Lonely

Author:Donald Miller

“So who is better off, those who share love long enough to see which parts inevitably fade or those who lose their love when it is still pristine? I think each is lonely in a different place, though if you lose your love while it is still perfect you at least have a clear explanation for your grief, while if it gradually crumbles in your hands you do not.”

Ifs Thinking Long Stills Different Enough Hands Loses Perfect Grief Clear Share Lonely Explanation Fades Better Off Different Place Pristine

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.”

Said Life Is Loneliness Lonely Absolutes Knees Too Short Life Is Too Short Standstill

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don’t know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.”

People Knows Dies Three Strong Community Degrees Lonely Sick Factors

Author:Dean Ornish

“A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”

Way Want Quality Lonely Quality Time Time With You

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”

Matter Grows Solitude Lonely Bored Curse Duration

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.”

Ifs Happens Lonely Paid Trade Singers These Days You Like It Craftsman Blacksmiths

Author:Jacques Brel

“At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.”

Knows World Feels Hard Know How Havens Tears Lonely Score I Feel Sad

Author:Yani Tseng

“If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.”

Writing Forget Lonely

Author:Jack Driscoll

“Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.”

People Knows Feels Children I Can Matter Feelings Childhood Loneliness Lonely My Children Feeling Lonely

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“The bagel is a lonely roll to eat all by yourself because in order for the true taste to come out you need your family. One to cut the bagels, one to toast them, one to put on the cream cheese and the lox, one to put them on the table and one to supervise.”

Needs Order Cutting Taste Lonely Tables Our Family Cheese Cream Toasts Bagels Cream Cheese

Author:Gertrude Berg

“No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.”

Men World Years Two Work Cities He Man Sorrow Eternal Standards Labor Crosses Lonely Wander Thirty Shops Village Agony Homeless Obscure Success And Failure Shameful Carpenter True Life

Author:Frederic Farrar

“I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.”

Writing Sometimes Fun Social Stuff Enjoy Voice My Own Records Standing Lonely Demos Standing Alone So Lonely

Author:Sondre Lerche

“I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.”

Ifs Knows World Mind Believe I Can Hands Father Heaven Stars Space Darkness Sun Sky Atheism Dog All Things Lonely Shining Positive Atheism Dust Fixed Hung Unbelief Lonely World

Author:Gerald Kersh

“The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.”

Stills Fate Mountain Lonely Sunset Valleys Soar Scorn Desolate Flare Forlorn

Author: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.”

People Feels Stills Millions Laughing Television Jokes Lonely Remarkable Permit Miscellaneous Feeling Lonely

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.”

“No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”

World Existence Conditions Loneliness Lonely Philosophical Being Alone Friendless

Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”

Men World Female Lonely Boss Being Lonely Boss Day Boss's Day Funny Boss Day Happy Boss Day Funny Boss

Author:Robert Frost

“Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in college. The black creek, the woods, the empty fields, the old cemetery-anywhere away from people, away from their critical eyes. I would seek out these places, choosing routes and times that would mean I could avoid as many people as possible.”

People Years Firsts Mean Eye Black Fields College Depression Lonely Empty Illness Woods Critical Mental Illness Routes Cemetery Creeks Semester Lonely Places

Author:Samantha Abeel

“One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.”

Men House Loneliness Lonely One Man

Book:Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost

Source: Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost

“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 A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things”

Needs Enough Dream Dies Mountain Lonely Wide Graves Queens Consumerism Overconsumption

Author: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 lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.”

Feels Writing Life Is My Own Company One Thing Lonely My Thoughts Loner Feeling Lonely Paramount Many Friends

Author: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 freedom from the crowd, from the other. It is your freedom from the fear of being lonely.”

Feels Reality Beautiful Loneliness Lonely Crowds Being Lonely Your Freedom

Author:Rajneesh

“The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.”

Sleep Silence Sky Lonely Hills Starry Sky

Author:William Wordsworth

“And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.”

Lasts Race Flower Lonely Blue Breeze

Author:William C. Bryant

“Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.”

Men Home Waiting Lonely Companionship Lonely Man Lonely Women

Author: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 fed”

Feels Lonely University Worthy Rational Feds Admiration Thinker Positively

Book:Memories and Studies

Source: Memories and Studies

“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 they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.”

Littles Hours Path Sea Sweet Mets Lonely Clouds Speed Ships Mist Converses Foam Lonely Path

Author: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 strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.”

World Way Love Long Soul Whole Beautiful Lying Night Goal Hours Perfect This World Flower Eternal Lonely Green Meetings Golden Weary Lone Long Nights Green Leaves

Author: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 we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.”

Real Self Understanding Loses Protect Criticism Lonely Crowds Protection Rejection Family And Friends Misunderstood Steep Real Self Camouflage

Author:Sidney Jourard

“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 years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!”

Years Memories Saws Fate Sea Lonely Wave Mood Thee Grass Indifference Vague Oaks Lingering Hermits

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)

“Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.”

Loneliness Lonely Paint Boxes Painter

Author:Joni Mitchell

“All the lonely people, where do they all come from?”

People Loneliness Lonely Lonely People Beatles Love

Author: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 share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.”

Giving Art Music Novel Sky Share Lonely Paint Interpretation Altruism Ensemble

Book:Friends and fiddlers

Source: Friends and fiddlers

“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 of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.”

Ifs Heart Made Beautiful Water Thousand Fairs Lonely Sight Delight Tongue Spots Grandeur Wondrous Sparkle Mirth

Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.”

Persons Real Reality Jesus Lonely Scared Real Person Sorrowful

Author:M. Scott Peck

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