(358 quotes found)
“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
Orson Welles
“It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.”
Joseph Wood Krutch
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on 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.”
Lord Byron
“I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence. The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.”
Robin Williams
“Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place”
Gary Zukav
“Lone eagles, soaring in the clouds, fly with silent, peaceful poise,While turkeys, in their earth-bound crowds, fill the atmosphere with noise.”
William Arthur Ward
“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
Lorraine Hansberry
“Elitism - It's lonely at the top. But it's comforting to look down upon everyone at the bottom.”
Larry Kersten
