(307 quotes found)
“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.”
Dr. Paul Tournier
“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind”
John Cheever
“Liverpool can be very lonely on a Saturday night, and it's only Thursday morning.”
Paul Angelis
“It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.”
Judy Garland
“Honesty is such a lonely wordEveryone is so untrueHonest is hardly ever heardAnd mostly what I need from you.”
Billy Joel
“If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right”
Jules Renard
“Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”
Alice Walker
“If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.”
“I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?”
Courteney Cox