Lonely Man Quotes

• A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

  John Cheever

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

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• Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.511, Thomas Wolfe

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• In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lonely, Home, Men

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.88, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If I only dated actresses, Id be a very lonely man.

  Joshua Jackson

  Lonely, Men, Actresses

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• Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.79, Routledge

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• A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

  John Steinbeck

  Lonely, Nuts, Differences

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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• There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

  Abraham ibn Ezra

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Lonely, Jobs, Loneliness

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• A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lonely, Men, Thinking

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• There’s too much beauty upon this earth
  For lonely men to bear.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Lonely, Men, Earth

  Richard Le Gallienne (1913). “The lonely dancer: and other poems”

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• A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

  John Steinbeck

  Nuts, Guy, Crooks

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

  George Eliot

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.935, Xist Publishing

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• For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Lonely, Teaching, Taken

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• Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.

  Cesare Pavese

  Lonely, Writing, Men

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.101, Transaction Publishers

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• A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lonely, Night, Men

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• For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Lonely, Men, Air

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• 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

  Love, Lonely, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

  Bruce Barton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.

  James Kavanaugh

  Beautiful, Lonely, Men

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• I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.

  Christopher Moore

  Lonely, Men, May

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• Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

  Charles Bukowski

  Lonely, Men, Hey

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• If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Children, Men

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• On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things. I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head began to hurt from his banality. I almost didn't notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all over him. He was not pleased, and I couldn't stop laughing.

  John Doe

  Lonely, Hurt, Men

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