It used to be when you eat, you eat with people. But instant noodles are so instant that people eat by themselves. And it’s a very convenient way of eating but also a very lonely way of eating.
Life on the road not easy. You live in the cold arena, hotel, airport day after day, you get tired, lonely very quick.
I love L.A. Some people arrive with big expectations and are inevitably disappointed, but I can audition in the day, which can be gruelling and lonely, but then gig and be creative in the evenings.
When I was writing or competing in individual sports, it felt unfulfilling and lonely. When I was able to find a group of people I believed in and liked, that all worked in pursuit of a common goal, it felt incredibly rewarding.
During the time of Olympics I felt very lonely. Nobody was there at my side, to guide me or attend to my needs. In the Olympic village I had to travel alone up to the mess and competition ground as well as to the practice ground.
My wife sent her photograph to the lonely hearts club. They sent it back, said they weren’t that lonely.
The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?
You never meet other screenwriters because it’s such a lonely profession.
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
I’m an only child so am happy with my own company and I don’t really get lonely.
You can be surrounded by many people but still feel quite lonely if you don’t have strong connections and if you feel you can’t be yourself with them. Conversely, you can just be around a few people, but feel deeply connected to them.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
I want to do good work, but having kids and a life outside of that is important, too. If you don’t have anybody around who loves you, then what’s it all for? You’re just lonely in the end.
The boxing world can be a very lonely one, and I’m so grateful every day to have Dad and my whole family watching my back. It would be unthinkable if I didn’t have their support.
If you want to come fight the good fight to make a difference for people and to try to get the government back on track, where we govern from the middle and not from the extremes, then understand that it’s a lonely road, and you’re going to have a hard time.
It’s a lonely position and those are the margins you play in as a goalkeeper – you simply cannot make mistakes because you will be punished.
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.
As I’ve got older, I’ve really had to dig deep and find where my happiness comes from. Why do I play tennis? You get a lot of incredible highs, but it can be very lonely with some dark lows. So the biggest thing I’ve learned is finding the reasons for my enjoyment.
Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
Fighting is a lonely thing. You train with your team. You bleed with them. You trust your coaches, but ultimately, you are in the cage alone.
Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.
At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I’ve had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.
It can be very lonely knowing that you have things to say but you daren’t say them. Knowing that you could contribute to something but you don’t dare quite do it.
I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I’m lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don’t want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.
I live in New York, and when you’re older and widowed, it’s a perfect place because you just don’t feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too.
When you are lonely, you get desperate to find a companion. My advice is instead of seeking Mr Right, use the time to hone your talents or workout at a gym. You may just meet someone special along the way.
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Because being CEO can feel lonely, I journal religiously as a way to express my thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Looking back at earlier entries helps me reflect on challenges and celebrate progress and successes.
For most people, Twitter feels lonely.
To cry on court during a Wimbledon final, you must feel so lonely.
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
It’s really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It’s good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.
Sometimes I’m having conversations with my friends, and I feel like they can’t relate to me anymore. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, let me tell you about my experience on ‘Fallon’!’ And they’ll be like, ‘Oh, my God, let me tell you about my trip to the mall!’ It sometimes feels lonely.
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
Stand-up comedy is a really lonely profession: you ‘perform for 2000 people, then you go to a hotel room by yourself and stare at a wall.
It’s a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.
I moved out to L.A. from New York… and I remember feeling, kind of like anyone does when they first move, so very lonely and isolated.
I realized that the journey of entrepreneurship can often be a lonely one. Not everyone wants to believe in or support your vision, and every entrepreneur faces this moment of truth. It’s hard to walk away but harder to persevere.
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is quite the opposite: a communal activity in significant part where interaction and interchange generate ideas and critiques of them.
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.
I can’t really have any friends. It’s sad, really. It’s lonely. But that’s how I am.
Strangely enough, ‘I’ve Seen All Good People’ is, I think, the second most played Yes song on American radio after ‘Owner Of A Lonely Heart.’ And then I think ‘Roundabout’ is third.
If you write fiction, you’re by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don’t have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you’re not lonely anymore.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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.
I am around people I love to be with all day; I’m not lonely. The simplest, happiest pleasure is being on my couch with my dog, Neville. Nothing is more comforting or soothing.
Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It’s something you have to learn. It’s a very lonely job.
The road can become a very lonely place. It’s not what it’s cracked up to be. Of course, it’s what you make it.
There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate.
I get lonely – I’m not going to lie about that… I kind of signed up in my mind that I’m giving myself wholeheartedly, full-throttle to my creative life, and I don’t want to be distracted.
I wasn’t lonely as a child. I was the eldest of four and always had lots of people around me.
A slug is always on its own. It’s a lonely insect.
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.
I’m addicted to ‘Lonely Planet’ guides. Naturally, I’ll buy one whenever I take a trip somewhere, but it goes beyond that: I’ve begun buying them for cities and countries I just hope to visit one day.
It’s lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I’ve made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There’s joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it’s not yours.
My dad taught me how to play tennis, and I owe that to him. But the better you get, the higher you climb, and the more lonely you get. I’ve had to sacrifice a lot of personal relationships, but that’s the choice I made.
A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he’ll get lonely, and next thing you know, he’s packed up and left. It’s better not to hire him in the first place.
