Lonely Quotes

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Yourself, Struggle, Try

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa

Work, Humble, Poor

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran

Faith, Pain, Doubt

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

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.
Anne Frank

Nature, God, Best

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou

Women, Men, Black

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

Alone, Person, Cannot

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.
Leo Buscaglia

Change, Control, Destiny

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Erma Bombeck

Dreams, Time, Why

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Alone, Thinking

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

Men, Boss, Anywhere

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin

Adventure, Gentleman, Dreamer

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
Henry Rollins

Boring, Loner, Room

For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view.
Charlie Sheen

Two, Around, Here

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Alone, Bad, Company

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
Jimmy Cannon

Christmas, Holiday, Rejected

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Judy Garland

Why, Around, Tell

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.
Judy Garland

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
Judy Garland

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
Margaret Thatcher

Job, Cannot, Lead

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.
Jude Law

Home, Brain, Night

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams

Alone, Selfish, Seem

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
Robert Plant

Life, Alone, Often

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
Doug Coupland

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Yousuf Karsh

Great, Men, Alone

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Anton Chekhov

Talk, Minds, Lead

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
Mason Cooley

Become, Thoughtful, Either

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker

Freedom, Today, End

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.
Drew Barrymore

God, Home, Alone

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
Bill Murray

Life, Family, Friends

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