269 quotes
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
Michael Jackson
Musician · American · 1958 – 2009
I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
Robert Plant
Musician · British · b. 1948
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
Adam Arkin
Actor · American · b. 1956
As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
Jason Schwartzman
Actor · American · b. 1980
I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
Barry Bonds
Athlete · American · b. 1964
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
Anna Neagle
Actress · English · 1904 – 1986
The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
Ajay Naidu
Actor · American · b. 1972
I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.
Carson Daly
Entertainer · American · b. 1973
If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Judy Garland
Actress · American · 1922 – 1969
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
Tori Amos
Musician · American · b. 1963
We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.
Hugo Weaving
Actor · Nigerian · b. 1960
New York is tough on lonely people.
Michael Bergin
Actor · American · b. 1969
I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny.
Kathleen Turner
Actress · American · b. 1954
Fame doesn't end loneliness.
Claire Danes
Actress · American · b. 1979
If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.
Joshua Jackson
Actor · American · b. 1978
I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.
When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.
Michael Zaslow
Actor · American · 1944 – 1998
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
Roy Orbison
Musician · American · 1936 – 1988
Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.
Liv Ullmann
Actress · Norwegian · b. 1938
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.
Jessica Lange
Actress · American · b. 1949
There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.
Elijah Wood
Actor · American · b. 1981
Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
Tatjana Patitz
Model · German · b. 1966
How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
Ray Bolger
Actor · American · 1904 – 1987
LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.
Scarlett Johansson
Actress · American · b. 1984
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
Vin Scully
Celebrity · American · b. 1927
I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.
Vincent Gallo
Actor · American · b. 1961
I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
Kate Bush
Musician · British · b. 1958
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller
Author · American · 1891 – 1980
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.
Richard M. Nixon
President · American · 1913 – 1994
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Doug Coupland
Author · Canadian · b. 1961
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
Margaret Thatcher
Leader · English · b. 1925
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
Sitting Bull
Statesman · Lakotan · d. 1890
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou
Poet · American · b. 1928
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker
Author · American · b. 1944
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Christopher Morley
Author · American · 1890 – 1957
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
John Milton
Poet · English · 1608 – 1674
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Mortimer Adler
Philosopher · American · 1902 – 2001
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
Luke Ford
Writer · Australian · b. 1966
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Boris Pasternak
Novelist · Russian · 1890 – 1960
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Soldier · 1780 – 1831
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Tecumseh
Leader · American · d. 1813
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck
Author · American · 1902 – 1968
Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
Cal Thomas
Journalist · American
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher · British · 1872 – 1970
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
Edna Ferber
Novelist · American · 1885 – 1968
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
Jared Diamond
Author · American · b. 1937
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
Writer · Peruvian · b. 1936
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa
Leader · 1910 – 1997