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Quotes About Loneliness

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.
~ John Lone
But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.
~ Mary Balogh, Simply Love
I never felt like I had a mother.
~ Quincy Jones
My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle
~ Phyllis Diller
Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie - except her man.
~ Raquel Cepeda
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.
~ Whitney Houston
Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.
~ Frank McCourt
Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
~ Claire Danes
There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.
~ Olivia Wilde
Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.
~ Gore Vidal
He made me feel less lonely tonight by letting me into his world, and I found that I really liked being there. I wasn't ready to go back to my own.
~ Ana Tejano, Keep the Faith
I'm afraid I'll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I'm afraid I'll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
~ Tablo
Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.
~ Pete Wentz
You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul
~ Christina Perri
Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe
~ George Michael
The truth is, that I feel alone most of the time. I stopped believing in happiness, but I know that music makes me feel good.
~ Jared Leto
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
~ William Wordsworth
My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.
~ Damon Albarn
You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.
~ Kenny Chesney
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
~ The Beatles
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
~ Robert Frost
Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?
~ Morrissey