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Quotes About Loneliness

I admired so many things about you. Almost everything. But I don't want to wind up like you. I don't want to starve to death, all alone on some island inside my own head. Hopeless.
~ Jenna Brooks, October Snow
Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.
~ Till Lindemann
It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.
~ Frank Borman
All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.
~ Shannen Doherty
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.
~ Bob Dylan
Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.
~ Ann Miller
I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.
~ Vinny Guadagnino
I still feel immense love and loyalty to Steve. And I've got great kids, I've got a very full life, and while I'm lonely for Steve, I'm not a lonely person.
~ Terri Irwin
I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
~ Viggo Mortensen
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
~ Tori Amos
The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
~ Randall Jarrell
I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.
~ Norah Jones
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
~ Lew Wallace
I do remember when I was starting acting, going from one set to the next, with not much else going on in my life. And at the end of the day, you get back to your hotel room and just feel this awful loneliness, because the cameras have stopped rolling.
~ Julianne Moore
If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
~ Mason Cooley
At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.
~ Joyce Meyer
The story of 'Mr. Robot' is really about this guy who's lonely - who's alone and feels so disconnected from the world.
~ Sam Esmail
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
~ Bill Murray
I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.
~ Annie Lennox
Just before a fight, as the ring empties, you can feel it. There is danger and loneliness all around you. Soon it's just the three of you in there: the referee, your opponent, and you. You're in a very lonely moment then. But, strangely, that's when I feel most comfortable. The ring becomes my office, and I go to work.
~ David Haye
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
~ Eric Hoffer
In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger.
~ Gautham Menon
If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.
~ Michael Caine
I don't really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. They're lacking something in their own personal lives, so they want the adoration of autographs and all that stuff.
~ John C. Reilly