(358 quotes found)
“Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.”
Mario Vargas Llosa
“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.”
Lou Dorfsman
“I was a very frustrated, lonely and anti-social young man. I felt very alienated and very bored as well.”
Brian Molko
“Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.”
Roy Orbison
“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
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from? / All the lonely people, where do they all belong?”
The Beatles
“Lonely like the sun......if anyone gets close to me I burn them”
Laura E
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”
Richard Wilbur
“Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.”
Tatjana Patitz
