(357 quotes found)
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”
Richard Wilbur
“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
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from? / All the lonely people, where do they all belong?”
The Beatles
“I live alone, and it's good. I stick on a video, watch telly. I am a bit lonely sometimes, but I laugh at my own jokes and dance around by myself when I'm making something to eat. I'd like to do a bit more reading maybe. I've tried, but somehow I just can't get into that book thing yet.”
Robbie Williams
“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.”
Anton Chekhov
“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
“Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.”
Melvin Maddocks
“The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place”
Gary Zukav
“Liverpool can be very lonely on a Saturday night, and it's only Thursday morning.”
Paul Angelis
“It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled”
Paul Theroux
