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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.

Jason Schwartzman

Actor · American · b. 1980

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

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