Quotes About Loneliness

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

I believe our Presidents work hard and it's the loneliest job in the world.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

I mean, any time an actress gets to work with another actress, it's like, "Oh, there are two of us in a movie! How are you? Let's sit in the hair chair together!" We're lonely, women.

I tried to keep my distance, but my world doesn't work without you in it.

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

The streets were dark with something more than night.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

Combat stress isn't the only problem for soldiers isolated in Iraq - there are family issues, re-integration issues when soldiers go home on leave, loneliness.

I didn't do so well at 'Saturday Night Live.' It was a very hard experience for me, for a lot of reasons that have to do with the kind of person I am and the personal issues I had at the time. I was very alone in New York, and the show has a lot of stress related to it.

It's the worst feeling, coming back after a performance when you are on a real high, and you go back alone to an apartment or a hotel room. People think we sit in hotels and eat bon bons. But the lifestyle can be very stressful.

When I was on the road full-time, there was about an eight, nine year stretch where I averaged, conservatively, 250 days a year out on the road. That's basically you fly into a town, you get a Rent-A-Car, find a hotel, go to the gym, you eat, you go to the arena, go back to the hotel, you wake up, go to the airport and go somewhere else.

As an only child you don't have many people to play with, and mum was strict about not mixing with kids on the street, so I played by myself.

My parents were super strict, so I didn't have a lot of freedom to hang out at parties or anything like that. I didn't get invited, and I didn't have many friends.

With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.