Lonely Quotes - Page 6

• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

  Carson McCullers

  Heart, Hunters, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

  Title of book (1940)

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• I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Reality

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Being Alone, Writing

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton (Chapter IV "Consolation For Inadequacy", p. 148), 2000.

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

  Robert Frost

  Men, Boss, Female

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

  Robert Frost

  Loneliness, Men, House

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.145, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

  Alice Walker

  Loneliness, Taken, People

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.70, The New Press

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• Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

  Vicki Baum

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Ice

  Vicki Baum (2016). “Grand Hotel”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.

  Stephen Stills

  Hurt, Sorry, Fun

  Song: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, 2007

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• Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Love, Pain, Loneliness

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

  Carson McCullers

  Men, Quality, Unrest

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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• In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Country, Loneliness, Cities

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• It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Writing, Business Writing, Being Lonely

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• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  Cal Thomas

  Honor, Battle, United States

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• Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.

  Tom Glazer

  Sound, Negative, Performers

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• My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

  Truman Capote

  Regret, Childhood, Life Is

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• Writing is a lonely business.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing

  David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). “The Best American Poetry 2015”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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

  Paul McCartney

  Loneliness, People, Beatles Love

  Song: Eleanor Rigby

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• Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Loneliness, Equality

  "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Travel, Loneliness, Adventure

  "Charlie Chaplin's Los Angeles: a black and white odyssey" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.

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• With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Men

  1927 Lazarus. Lazarus Laughed, act 3, sc.2.

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Interesting, Crowds

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• When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

  Ronald Anthony Cross

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Relationship, Distance

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• Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

  Maya Angelou

  Friendship, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.82, Random House

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