Quotes About Loneliness

There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good, when it really works, maybe once every 15 shows, it's very special, and you realize that's why you do it.

I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.

It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day.

I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn't have had any friends in any environment other than performing.

I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

I've always been on the periphery.

When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.

I realized that the journey of entrepreneurship can often be a lonely one. Not everyone wants to believe in or support your vision, and every entrepreneur faces this moment of truth. It's hard to walk away but harder to persevere.

You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.

Yves treats my wife as if she were a plaything, and continually assures me that she is charming. I find her as exasperating as the cicalas on my roof; and when I am alone at home, side by side with this little creature twanging the strings of her long-necked guitar, facing this marvellous panorama of pagodas and mountains, I am overcome by sadness almost to tears.

As for myself, a chill suddenly seizes me, at the idea that I have chosen to inhabit this lonely house, lost in the midst of the suburb of a totally strange town, perched high on the mountain and almost opening upon the woods. What wild notion could have taken possession of me, to settle myself in surroundings so foreign and unknown, breathing of isolation and sadness? The waiting unnerves me, and I beguile the time by examining all the little details of the building.

La soledad es más azucarada entre cócteles. Y entre estúpidas discusiones de música y política, mantenidas por seres que no son políticos ni músicos.

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

Kadang-kadang saya merasa sangat terisolasi. Saya hidup di dunia saya sendiri, dan hal ini seperti berada di pengasingan. Saya tidak tahu apakah orang masih ingin tahu apa yang sebenarnya saya pikirkan.

Dia telah tinggalkan aku, entah untuk sementara entah tidak.

She's the only fabulous thing in the world of echoes.

Sometimes, loneliness creates the loudest uprising for the soul.

Legatura dintre o fiinta si noi nu exista decat in gandul nostru. Amintirea, stergandu-se, legaturile slabesc si in ciuda iluziei cu care am vrea sa ne amagim si cu care din dragoste, din prietenie, din politete, din respect omenesc, din datorie ii amagim pe ceilalti, existam singuri. Omul este faptura ce nu poate iesi din sine, ce nu-i cunoaste pe ceilalti decat in sine; si, spunand contrariul, minte.

A big crowd, but not a HUMAN being in sight.

Better be mad with all the world than wise alone. #Fools

Better be mad with all the world than wise alone.

The woman without a husband doesn't have a friend.

Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.