Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don’t begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don’t become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.
Boxing is a lonely sport.
Just speaking for myself, when I’m complimented for being Vietnamese-American in television – the only one – that doesn’t make me feel happy, that makes me feel really lonely, actually.
The role of a founder-CEO is extremely lonely. You can’t always be fully forthcoming with your board or investors or employees.
When you’re away, I’m restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here’s the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you’re near.
As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere – it is a lonely place. It’s an isolated city in that respect because you’re driving to places alone listening to the radio.
True artists are prophets. I don’t want to be that prophetic in that sense because it’s so lonely.
I think ‘Lost Boy’ is just really relatable. You can be any age from any place in life, and you’re bound to feel lonely at some point.
When I got ‘227’ and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
Everyone’s been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.
Feeling sad or lonely isn’t a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you’ll cross the line into self-pity.
But when you actually go in the ring, it’s a very lonely and scary place. It’s just you and the other guy.
Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks’ Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.
I am lonely. I clean up the house, put kids to bed and there I sit.
I was sometimes a bit lonely as a teenager. There was a cultural disconnect.
People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.
It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you’ve never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.
It’s a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign… and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
This is a lonely sport, the more family, the more laughs, and the more fun you can have, the better. At the end of the day, though, it’s one man’s journey to try and be the best in the world.
Dorothy B. Hughes – there’s a robust elegance to her writing that I keep responding to again and again. I’ve read her novel ‘In a Lonely Place’ about eight or nine times.
Though we are more prosperous a nation and more connected a global community than ever before, many of us still feel lonely, disoriented and uncertain of the future.
Michael was divorced, lonely, and wanted children. I was the one who said to him, ‘I will have your babies.’
People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.
London does two things for me: it makes me feel connected, and it also makes me feel very isolated and quite lonely at times, and that’s someone with two children in their family.
I suspect you’ve noticed that making art can be lonely.
Yes, but don’t forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.
Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.
I lived at home and found myself really, really lonely because all my friends were enjoying college and partying, and I didn’t have that.
I’ve met very lonely people who have 10,000 friends on Facebook. And it’s just not real. We’ve set up this artificial society in cyberspace. And that’s supposed to be a community, like a real community. It’s supposed to be where people go to get solace or friendship or have fun.
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
I think sometimes men find it easier to be a carer than an accessory. I mean, most women I know in bands are pretty lonely. Guys don’t want to travel around with you. I know loads of women who do it, but guys don’t do it. They’re not brought up for it.
Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I’m married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.
Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a ‘Taxi Driver,’ or some Nicholas Ray movie, like ‘In a Lonely Place,’ seems so personal or obsessive or whatever.
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me… I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely… I could have used a bit more solitude.
I think there are barriers, but I think for me specifically, my barrier is being rejected from the kind of hip-hop elitists that think I’m not appropriating it, but just not serious about it. They think I’m a Lonely Island, Weird Al, you know – like a parody rapper. So that alienates me from a lot of things.
I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I’d think ‘in the time that I don’t spend writing, I could raise a family of five.’ In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating.
If I only dated actresses, I’d be a very lonely man.
I’ve never been lonely.
I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely making than sanitized stories or airbrushed stories that kind of allied how hard it got.
I’m so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
Coming to Middlesex, there was one coach in particular who backed me. But outside of that, it’s a pretty lonely place.
Our mums came on tour and mine was baffled by it all. She kept saying in the car: ‘You just do this on your own? Don’t you want to be with people? This is so lonely!’ I guess we’re just used to it. It is a funny little world.
I’ve always lived in a city. I’m very social, and in a place like New York, even if you’re alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.
I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you’re at home trying to write anything you can. ‘Flight Of The Conchords’ was so wonderful because I had a family for two years.
The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.
I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples’ homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
You’ll always feel lonely if you always need validation. People don’t like to be around those kinds of people.
We always need friends. And I think we come out of these highly social environments with university, college, wherever we were, and getting to a new city could be daunting. It can be lonely, and it’s almost easier to find a date than it is to find a friend.
Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.
I’m most fascinated by remote places and lonely islands, which are also the hardest places to reach.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
Sometimes I get lonely, but it’s nice to be alone.
What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I’m a pop singer for Christ’s sake. As a person, I’m fairly uncomplicated.
If we don’t know how to be alone, we’ll only know how to be lonely.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
It’s a dismally lonely business, writing.
The path that Lonely Island took got us excited to think we could get somewhere legitimate by making little videos.
The touring comic is a lonely soul, sometimes dabbling into conversation with a colleague in the green room, but on the whole, we just stand around and try to cope with the random diversity that comes with the ‘job.’
I think it’s always worth remembering that people sending off mean tweets are probably pretty lonely people.
I hated London; I was so lonely.
The workplace can be a good place to find opportunities to socialise, but what if you don’t meet any like-minded people there, or what if you work alone? Is it, somewhat counter-intuitively, easier to find yourself lonely in a city than in a small town or village?
