Top 425 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.
Rudyard Kipling
A lot of the time, when I swim, I close my eyes because it is definitely lonely.
Ellie Simmonds
If you have a good inner life, you don’t get lonely. I’ve got a good imagination. I don’t miss romance.
Diana Rigg
Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn’t understand how it worked. I remember feeling quite lonely.
Kate Atkinson
Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can’t get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I’m with – even with my children.
Natalia Vodianova
The movies were so healing for me because I had such an isolated, lonely childhood. Going to the movies and having the lights go down, you disappear. If you have esteem issues, suddenly you’re in a void where nobody can see you. You are just by yourself in that darkness, and your loneliness is cured.
Michael De Luca
I’m perpetually lonely.
Lady Gaga
I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both were kind of the new music of the day, and it was lonely being the only punk.
Rick Rubin
I get lonely when I’m a Playstation widow.
Ashley Judd
Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.
David Byrne
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
Paul Theroux
I started watching so many different types of women, saw all the complexities of them, all the ways and the look and shapes they could be, and I felt it was missing for me in American film. I didn’t see anybody I was watching in movies that felt like me. I felt rather tortured and lonely about it.
Brie Larson
International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one’s self and try to grow as a cricketer.
Harbhajan Singh
If someone was out all day, we wouldn't give them just

If someone was out all day, we wouldn’t give them just one cat, because they would be lonely – we would give them two cats.
Celia Hammond
I find the game fascinating and poker has unlocked parts of me emotionally. I’m enjoying the process but there are moments when I’m really down. It’s a ton of travel, it’s exhausting, physically and emotionally. It’s lonely.
Maria Konnikova
I got so lonely in 2012 and I wasn’t playing drums. I thought I would just form my own band and play drums again. I think it was 2013 that we started looking for two other people and formed Day of Errors.
Bill Ward
Music is supposed to make you less lonely – that’s the whole idea.
Kristian Bush
Frankly, it can be lonely at the top when it comes to driving diversity.
Pierre Nanterme
If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.
Louise L. Hay
I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I’m thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.
David Talbot
I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.
Matthew Shultz
I grew up in a small house with just my mam and felt quite lonely at times.
Laura Whitmore
I live on a lonely culinary island, built on (very thin) bedrock consisting of things I know, or believe, my family will eat. It is a small island. Fortunately, nachos are on that island with me, and nothing gets my family fired up like nachos for lunch.
Chris Morocco
Older Americans are perfect telemarketing customers, analysts say, because they are often at home, rely on delivery services, and are lonely for the companionship that telephone callers provide.
Charles Duhigg
We want to conquer the world and have 1,000 likes, 1 million likes, but at the same time, we are depressed. We are lonely, but we have 10,000 followers. We are all bipolar.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
Donald Miller
You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you’re looking at a very long and lonely old age.
John Nettles
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.
Trudi Canavan
At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don’t mind being single. In fact, I like it.
Alana Stewart
Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work – that means hard – there’s no time for play.
Ann Miller
Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you’re going through – from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense – is an invaluable asset.
Lisa Graff
I don’t have a sidekick – no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I’m lonely. It’s scary.
Carson Daly
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
It’s lonely being stuck in a hotel in London for two nights. Even a couple of nights away from the children is awful.
Peter Kay
Telling my story has not been easy for me. I’ve had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months I avoided others, attempting to hide from interrogations about my social life.
Chirlane McCray
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
Ben Horowitz
Acting always affects every part of your life because it’s such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you’re taking on someone else’s character and that responsibility. It’s exhausting.
Joel Grey
I used to travel a lot as a kid and when I first moved to England I felt lonely and my parents were splitting up at the time.
Olly Alexander
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams
When I was a kid I feel lonely, I have not many friends. If you make a movie, then you can work with different kinds of people and make different kinds of friend. That’s very important to me.
John Woo
When I’m by myself – composing or writing film scores – it’s very lonely. I’m just sitting by myself in the studio.
Ludwig Goransson
I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?
Arthur Smith
Cities can be paradoxical places. In the mornings they buzz with commuters, in the evenings they come alive with diners and partygoers, at weekends the streets fill with shoppers and market traders. But amidst the hustle and bustle, even the greatest city can be a lonely place.
David Lammy
I still feel immense love and loyalty to Steve. And I’ve got great kids, I’ve got a very full life, and while I’m lonely for Steve, I’m not a lonely person.
Terri Irwin
It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the w

It’s lonely. That’s why, in many ways, the CIA is the world’s biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it’s much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I’m pretty sure the agency’s divorce rate is rather high.
Valerie Plame
I always wish for the audience to feel less lonely when they leave the room. To have the film as a companion, as a shelter for themselves.
Celine Sciamma
The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn’t mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.
Spike Jonze
I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That’s not me at all.
Daphne Guinness
If my 18-year-old daughter asked me whether she should lead a truth-hunting, artistic, uncompromising life as I have done, I’d say no, don’t do it. It’s a difficult and lonely path for a woman.
Viv Albertine
I’m never in the same place for too long, and you make the most amazing friends on one set, and then you go to another, and you start all over again, and it’s lonely sometimes.
Sydney Sweeney
I lived in buses. I didn’t really have anything else. I didn’t feel like a female, and I ended up really kind of isolated. Everybody thinks you’re so happy and so wealthy and such a big star, but you’re really kind of lonely and don’t know how to stop it.
Dolores O’Riordan
A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.
Lilly Singh
I’ve cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
Kate Christensen
Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
Taron Egerton
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.
Henri Nouwen
You know golf is very lonely. When I’m in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won’t feel like I’m alone.
Yani Tseng