Quotes About Loneliness

There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night.

I understand what it was to be out there on the road without a tour bus and without fans.

Touring can be quite a dull life.

The hardest part about touring is being away from family and friends. When you're gone for a long time, it's especially hard for me to remember to keep in touch with certain people because there's so much going on on the road.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

Touring gets really lonely.

The touring comic is a lonely soul, sometimes dabbling into conversation with a colleague in the green room, but on the whole, we just stand around and try to cope with the random diversity that comes with the 'job.'

I remember reading an interview with Adele, where she said that touring was the loneliest thing in the world. All of her band are hired, so, really, it's just her. I can't imagine what that must be like.

Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.

Touring is really hard because you're gone for three months at a time.

It is hard being in a relationship when you are a dancer as I have been touring a lot all over the world.

My reality was feeling lonely while touring to predominately white countries where I sing to fans who don't see me, don't hear me, don't cheer me on.

Doing that on my own, the idea of touring on my own does not excite me very much.

It was hard growing up because there was nothing close. I never went to a golf tournament.

I've been in tournaments before when you've been away for a while, and you're not really playing, you're just training. Sometimes you can feel like you're not really part of it.

I'm quite happy trekking around Greenland on my own, but those big book tours in America or the Far East are the only time I ever really feel lonely.

I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.

I was the shiest person you could think of. I didn't really speak. I was an only child, so most of my life I spent in my bedroom playing with toys by myself, speaking through them.

I grew up as an only child, so inherently, most of my life was centered around me. My parents taught me to play well with others and to share my toys, but I was still an only child who didn't have to share my parent's attention with siblings. As great as my childhood was, I always wanted brothers and sisters.