“People in New York just go about their business. Maybe living there for a long time, it would get lonely, but there's something really nice about being able to go about your business and not feel like anybody is really paying attention to you or what you're doing.” PeopleFeelsLongAbleAttentionNiceNew YorkLong TimeLonelyPay AttentionReally Nice Author:Ellar Coltrane
“History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.” PeopleDiesFightingEvilLeftForceBattleLonelyInstanceLeft Alone Author:Asghar Ali Engineer
“Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing on moving vehicles. Looking at paintings in the grand museums of the world in a proscribed way.Little strategies to keep the lalita - play or dance - going. Sometimes it's lonely you know, just you and your own imagination.” KnowsWorldWayWritingKindLittlesSometimesPlayDreamMovingImaginationCuttingObjectsPaintingAdventureLonelyStrategyVariousExperimentsMuseumsVehicleFoldsAncestryAssignmentsJuxtaposition Author:Anne Waldman
“If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.” KidsTeachLonely Author:Sherry Turkle
“I think people are lonely and desperate for attention and unemployed and bored. I don't mean that these are losers that live with their mom, although that is true for many of these people. I think people in general are literally underemployed and lonely and bored in this country because of the economic downturn, and because of the isolation that's available because of the internet. The internet has both freed people up to connect with each other and isolated them.” PeopleThinkingMeanCountryAttentionEconomicMomInternetLonelyBoredDesperateIsolationLoser Author:Moshe Kasher
“I don't experience much loneliness, oddly. Sometimes I have thought I was lonely and it turned out I was in reality wanting a snack, just like sometimes I have thought I was mad and it turned out I was actually wearing too many sweaters. I've always been very content in the company of my own thoughts, and I prefer to spend much of my time alone. But I do like conversation - for the exercise, for the spark, for the let's-see-where-it-takes-us, for being able to dip into communal creativity when you're tired of your own air.” SometimesRealityCreativityLonelinessExerciseLonelyMadTiredMe Alone Author:Patricia Lockwood
“The kind of solitude that refreshes and restores is very important, not just for children, not just for adolescents, but for all of us. If you don't teach your children how to be alone they will only be able to be lonely.” KindChildrenImportantTeachSolitudeLonelyOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Sherry Turkle
“Writing can be such a lonely endeavor that I do think community is also important.Meeting at cafes and exchanging work and reading to each other and giving each other little bits of encouragement and feedback and thoughts, I think that's an incredibly rich experience because what it does is it gives you a sense of community but also purpose. If I know I'm going to meet you in a cafe next Tuesday, I'm going to write something that I can hand to you. Discipline is such a challenge for so many writers and so I think that that's a key benefit of being in a group.” ThinkingGivingWritingImportantPurposeReadingCommunityChallengesRichDisciplineLonelyEncouragementMeetingsFeedbackTuesday Author:Cheryl Strayed
“My strength has always been my family and my friends who are like family. The business can chew you up and spit you out and if you don't have some calm in the storm, it's a very lonely journey. My family and friends love me whether I'm working or not and that makes all the difference.” JourneyLonelyMy FamilyCalmStormFamily And Friends Author:Melanie Nicholls-King
“It's lonely at the top - if you don't like that, then you don't start a company.” Lonely Author:Gary Vaynerchuk
“I don't feel a connection with younger people or with Generation X, or any generation, I feel. If I felt a connection with people my age I wouldn't have written six books about feeling depressed, alienated, lonely. If I did I would have many friends and feel connected with them and probably be a happy person who has a real job.” PeopleBookRealFeelingsAgeLonelyHappy Person Author:Tao Lin
“My feeling is, the world is a lonely place. If you can find people who are like you, and find some camaraderie, that's special. I wish there was more of that in the world, in general.” PeopleWorldFeelingsWishSpecialLike YouLonelyCamaraderie Author:Katie Dippold
“I'm also lonely. I'll admit it. I go to Twitter because I'm lonely. I get my coffee in the morning, and I live alone. I get on Twitter, and I sit and have my coffee. Sometimes I'll look at it for 30 minutes. I will waste a lot of time on Twitter. I do! But it's my guilty pleasure. And I'll look for some happy stories to retweet, and I'll say some uplifting things to people. I try not to get caught into - I used to get tangled up into some crazy stuff. But I try not to do that anymore.” PeopleTryingSometimesPleasureMorningCrazyLonelyCoffeeGuiltyUpliftingTangledSo Lonely Author:Andie MacDowell
“I think because I can be sad, and I can be lonely, my gift would be trying to help other people feel less lonely and less sad. Because that's what I understand.” PeopleThinkingTryingHelpingLonelyHelping Others Author:Andie MacDowell
“We have mirror neurons that mirror other human beings. In other words, if I'm smiling it tends to make other people with me smile also. Whether I'm happy or lonely, I will tend to have happy or lonely friends. The same thing happens with actions; if I make an act of generosity it tends to be passed on down through society. So I see small groups as being very important in having an effect on large groups.” PeopleImportantActionLonelyThings HappenGenerosity Author:Lynne McTaggart
“I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.” WorldYearsPoetryLonelinessMessagesYears AgoLonelyPassingPassingsAliensHostileGave UpFeeling LonelyBeing Lonely Author:Russell Baker
“I grew up in LA, and I don't think I've seen LA onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between. I wanted to see a movie that was set in LA that wasn't about the film industry. LA is such a lonely place to be alone. In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafés, you can talk to people. In LA, no one talks to each other, you're in your house, you're in your car, even when you take walks there's no one on the street.” PeopleThinkingRealFilmHouseCarLonely Author:Zoe Kazan
“I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.” WritingActingLonely Author:Rachel Weisz
“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?” PeopleLonelyBeing Lonely Author:Sally Field
“Nowadays I imagine people find freer and more accepting venues in blogs, on Tumblr and Instagram and Facebook, in the riot of shouting that trails in the wake of every news story. So there's always the pandemonium of the Internet, if you need to get your lunatic opinions out in public. I find most of that stuff a little insane-making and my preference is to encounter personal essays in the relatively sedate and stable universe of print, in literary quarterlies, magazines and books. But I'm sure you can find plenty of good stuff in lonely outposts all across the World Wide Web.” PeopleWorldBookUniverseAcceptingOpinionImagineInternetLonelyPlentyPrintEssaysRiotLunatic Author:Charles D'Ambrosio
“I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. And that's what has always drawn me towards music. It's something where, by connecting to someone else's voice, I feel less lonely. I feel more alive. I feel more connected to the world and to the rest of humanity. Sometimes a voice can be like a lifeline.” PeopleThinkingWorldSometimesFeelingsHumanityOpportunityLonely Author:Antony Hegarty
“Towards the end of Coexist, we had a couple of short tours where, although we were on the road together, we weren't speaking very much. We were there to do a job, and once the show was done we'd go our separate ways to our hotel rooms. Those were some of my unhappiest moments. Stepping offstage and, within an hour, being in a hotel room alone is the most crazy feeling. I don't know how to really explain it. I felt just lost and confused. It's anticlimactic and you just feel really lonely.” DoneMomentsFeelingsTogetherHoursCrazyCoupleLonelyConfusedHotelCoexist Author:Oliver Sim
“It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and to be alone in your own head.” LonelyDepressing Author:Gillian Robespierre
“The harder the circumstances under which you're making a movie, generally the better the friends you make. You're far away from home and so you're kind of lonely, and you end up all gravitating towards each other and the bar every night. It tends to be inversely proportionate to the comfort level on the movie, how close you become to everybody.” KindHomeNightCircumstancesComfortLonelyFar Away Author:Emily Mortimer
“I felt that in a way, I hated the writing process so much. It's excruciating, as I'm sure you know, and so lonely being in the solitary prison of my office. A lot of brain-wracking. It just felt like it was so much hard work, and I would send it away. I felt as though I was doing all of this heavy lifting, this weightlifting, every day, all day. It was excruciating. And I stayed skinny, and someone else got all the muscles. I was eating all my vegetables, but then I wouldn't get dessert. To me, directing is the dessert.” WritingHard WorkOfficeEatingLonelyPrisonHatedSolitaryWriting ProcessLiftingDessertSo Lonely Author:Shane Black
“I like to record with people. 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.” PeopleWritingSometimesFunEnjoyLonelyStanding AloneSo Lonely Author:Sondre Lerche
“People have all these preconceived notions about magicians, like that they're lonely and bitter or they're socially awkward people. I don't know what magician hurt all these people, but I'm constantly having to overcome all these stereotypes. So, no. I'm sure there are just as many magicians who are lonely and bitter as there are comedians, lawyers, or any profession.” PeopleHurtLonelyOvercomingProfessionLawyerBitterComedianAwkwardStereotypeMagicianPreconceived Notions Author:Justin Willman
“I think it's a fascinating thing to see how lonely people are in this world and what they're looking for. It's a universal concept. So, it's something that interests me and I'll probably revisit it if I get the chance to do the child soldier film because I think it's one of the most important scripts I've written. It's just too dark to do as a film right now. I need to do something a bit different.” PeopleThinkingWorldChildrenImportantDifferentFilmInterestDarkChanceLonelySoldierLonely People Author:Cary Fukunaga
“I think we tend to write more uplifting and vibrant music when we're in bleak and lonely surroundings. I think it's because you're channeling your loneliness in a way that you're trying to escape to your situation.” ThinkingWritingTryingSituationLonelinessLonelyUpliftingBleak Author:Ed MacFarlane
“If you don't have your friends, you start to go a bit mad. That's why in the future I don't want to be constantly acting, going from one film to another. I just think it would be so very lonely to be away from your friends and family for so long and no proper kind of routine.” ThinkingKindLongFilmActingLonelyMadFamily And Friends Author:Dakota Blue Richards
“Traveling is amazing. You meet so many great, positive people. You get to see new faces all the time. I don't think that loneliness, it's not like you have no one in your life. Well, I'd say it's like . . . you can have everyone you need in your life and still be lonely. Everyone knows that. Being on the road is complicated and shitty; it's also really, really rad.” PeopleThinkingLonelinessLike YouLonelyComplicated Author:How to Dress Well
“Our aim - our only aim - is to be at home in Christ. He's not a roadside park or hotel room. He's our permanent mailing address. Christ is our home. He's our place of refuge and security. We're comfortable in his presence, free to be our authentic selves. We know our way around in him. We know his heart and his ways. We rest in him, find our nourishment in him. His roof of grace protects us from storms of guilt. His walls of providence secure us from destructive winds. His fireplace warms us during the lonely winters of life. We linger in the abode of Christ and never leave.” HeartHomeChristGraceSecurityWallProtectLonelyAimGuiltWinterStormHotelRefugeRoofNourishmentMailing Author:Max Lucado
“I live a much better life without having to worry about people chasing me. I spent five years in prison from 21 to 26, which is probably the best part of my youth behind bars. I was in some very bad prisons overseas as well. It was not a fun life, it was a very lonely life in reality. I was a smart enough kid to know that I was going to get caught. The law sometimes sleeps, but the law never dies. I knew it was just a matter of time. I would be caught and I'd get punished and face the consequences.” PeopleSometimesEnoughRealityKidsFunSleepWorryYouthSmartConsequenceLonelyPrisonBetter Life Author:Frank Abagnale
“When I began in the late '90s, I felt quite lonely. We were coming out of the grunge era; it was the time of Corinne Day, The Face, the height of the YBAs, where models had to be "real," on real locations with no lighting. I rebelled against the grungeys - I didn't find the faux naturalism to be representative!” RealLonelyBeing RealNaturalismGrunge Author:Miles Aldridge
“I thought that it's so sad there are people who live their entire lives lonely. They die and no one goes to their funeral. I thought about how sad that was and how so many people out there have that path. I know this sounds weird, but if I could go take their bones back to my house and appreciate them for what they are, it would be my way of taking that loneliness away.” PeopleHousePathLonelinessAppreciateLonelyBonesMy WayFuneralSo Sad Author:Lindi Ortega
“There were so many different influences in my life: being half Mexican and half Irish, growing up an only child of immigrant parents, being bullied in school, feeling alienated and lonely, this undertone of darkness. All that culminated and came out in my music and made it different.” ChildrenDifferentFeelingsSchoolParentDarknessGrowing UpInfluenceLonelyMexicanBulliedBeing Bullied Author:Lindi Ortega
“I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work. I'm not afraid of hard work, especially if it's for stuff that I enjoy. But I actually don't think you could name one artist who enjoys promo or touring after the first three to six months of an album cycle.” ThinkingArtistEnjoyHard WorkLonelyNot Afraid Author:Sia Furler
“I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do seem to be more social than fiction writers. This could be because of poetry's roots in the oral tradition - poetry is read aloud and even performed. I'm just speculating, of course. At any rate, because poets form these groups, they learn from one another. That is one of the best things about being a poet.” WritingCommunityModernPoetTraditionLonelyRatePoetry Is Author:Rae Armantrout
“As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.” ThinkingLonelyFinding YourselfAll AloneTime To Think Author:Melissa Leo
“The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social media. At the same time, if no one ever read my work, if I was writing solely for myself, I bet it would be lonely and a lot less fun.” WorldWritingFunLonelySocial Media Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“It's like you're wearing a really amazing dress and high heels and you've just gone to the hair salon and gotten a facial and you feel fabulous, and then someone says, You look really awful. You're thinking, Was I completely delusional? That's what having Lyme disease feels like. It was very lonely and for many years I just didn't talk about the way I felt because I assumed if there's nothing wrong on paper, maybe this is just the way a human is supposed to feel, and I'm just complaining about it.” ThinkingLike YouLonelyComplainingHeelsFabulousDelusionalReally Amazing Author:Ally Hilfiger
“The internet takes a lot of the anxiety of life away. It's a kind of deity. You're never lonely. You're always distracted. If you spend enough time on it, there's not really that nagging sensation of existential despair; it erases it very effectively. And it's monolithic. And thanks to it, we've got the ways to linger there after death - your blog exists afterwards, your e-mail exists afterwards.” KindEnoughInternetDespairAnxietyLonelyThanksExistentialDistractedAfter DeathErase Author:Joshua Ferris
“Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.” PeopleArtistInterestGrowing UpShareChildhoodLonelyFeeling Lonely Author:Deborah Solomon
“I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world. If I had any other skills that were more performative - if I could have been a musician or an actor - I'm sure I would have pursued that instead in order to get that instant feedback and to hear applause.” ThinkingWorldTryingKidsMusicianLonelyInstantSolitaryFeedbackCartoonist Author:Adrian Tomine
“My schooling was very conservative. I went to Trinity School, and then to the Hill School, which is a boarding school, then to Yale. My parents got divorced in that period, and I realized I didn't have a life anymore. I was the only child, so a three-person family breaks apart. I ended up very conformist, very scared, very lonely. I couldn't go on with Yale, just couldn't do it. I'd been doing too much of that for too long. I didn't know what I wanted, but I knew what I didn't want, which was to go to Wall Street and join the crowd there.” ChildrenLongSchoolParentBreakWallLonelyScaredConservativeI RealizedHillsDivorcedSchoolingConformist Author:Oliver Stone
“I do like Twitter. Writing is a solitary pursuit, and it can get lonely. I like to go into Twitter for a short period of time, communicate with clever friends, and then switch it off. That's perfect for me.” WritingPerfectLonelyCommunicateCleverSolitary Author:Lauren Groff
“I guess bittersweet is probably my favorite tone, as a lover of Woody Allen and Federico Fellini and the French New Wave. You know, old Hollywood, sad movies. I guess it's my picture of suburban life, a lot of it being very, very lonely. I wanted to have that infused into the feeling of it.” FeelingsLoversLonelyMy FavoriteWaveBittersweetWoody Author:Greg Mottola
“People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.” PeopleThinkingSometimesRealizingRocksLonelyBottlesRock And RollJetChampagneTime To ThinkPrivate Jet Author:Lenny Kravitz
“The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.” IfsWorldSelfWholeSeemsNatureOne ThingAdventureLonelyWhole WorldSnowSufficientSelf SufficientSnowflakeWinter Snow Author:Joseph Wood Krutch