Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno

John Kerry is recovering nicely after having prostate surgery. But the doctors did tell him it would be several months before he could be sexually active again. All the other Democratic candidates have been very supportive. Joe Lieberman called to wish him the best. The Rev. Al Sharpton called to offer prayers. Former President Bill Clinton called Mrs. Kerry and asked if she was lonely.

Candace Bushnell

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

Buck Owens

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.

James Herriot

And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of course—old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.

Janeane Garofalo

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

Janet Fitch

My loneliness tasted like pennies.

Janet Fitch

What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.

Janet Fitch

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.

Paul Goodman

It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the human community. Or one dissents totally from their system of ideas and stands as a lonely human being. (But luckily one notices that the others are in the same crisis and making the same choices.)

Patrick Kavanagh

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own...

Pamela Anderson

When I'm lonely, frustrated or hurt it usually comes from a male person and from unrequited love. I often carry that pain around with me and my ribs actually start to ache. That's when I sit down and write.

Judd Apatow

I love the Lonely Island. I wish there was more Lonely Island movies.

Leonardo da Vinci

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

Patrick O'Brian

It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed a much harder, far less affectionate woman than the Diana he had known or had thought he knew - a mythical person, no doubt created by himself. It had of course been evident from her letter, which made no reference to his; but he had not chosen to see the evidence and now it was absolutely forced upon his sight it made his eyes sting and tingle again. And deprived of his myth he felt extraordinarily lonely.

Patrick Ness

It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

Paris Hilton

Whenever I'm hired to do appearances I always get to take one or two friends with me. I'm away so much I'd get lonely if I didn't. My BBF would get to go jet-setting with me to amazing parties too, like the ones on P Diddy's yacht. Apart from me, he throws the best parties – they're so A-list.

Pam Brown

We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.

Lillie Langtry

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

Lillie Langtry

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress

Lillian Russell

I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.

Lillian Hellman

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

Lillian Hellman

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Jodi Picoult

You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.

Jodi Picoult

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

Jodi Picoult

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

Jodi Picoult

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

John Green

Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.

John Green

You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo’s beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection – uncracked and uncrackable.

John Green

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

John Green

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime...

Patti Smith

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

P. D. James

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.