Lonely Places Quotes

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

  Jodi Picoult

  Lonely, People, World

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Dream, Lonely

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• maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.

  Babs Deal

  Lonely, Loneliness, Humans

  BABS H. DEAL (1968). “THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN”

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• The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Lonely, Civilization, Rushing

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• I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

  Paul McCartney

  Lonely, Moon

  Song: Venus And Mars Rock Show Jet

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• If there's a heaven, it's a cold place. A dark place. A lonely place.

  Hiroshi Sakurazaka

  Lonely, Dark, Heaven

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• Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place

  Taylor Swift

  Lonely, Laughter, Tired

  Song: Enchanted, Album: Speak Now, 2010

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• Don't let ignorance blind you. Open your eyes, heart and your mind. And if you're feeling alone, know that the world can be a lonely place, but it would be lonelier without you in it.

  Hayley Williams

  Lonely, Hate, Eye

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• Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

  Pico Iyer

  Lonely, Shy, Wavelength

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• There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

  Alfred M. Gray

  Lonely, Military, Marine Corps

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• A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Lonely, Travel, Loneliness

  "Charlie Chaplin's Los Angeles: a black and white odyssey" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.

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• I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.

  Angie Everhart

  Lonely, Thinking, Spotlight

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• Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.

  Omar Khayyam

  Lonely, Kings, Book

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám”

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• Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

  Louis L'Amour

  Lonely, Writing, Adventure

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• Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

  Tecumseh

  Lonely, Native American, Medicine

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

  Robert E. Howard

  Death, Lonely, Midnight

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “THE CONAN SAGA: The Complete Epic”, p.48, BookRix

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• So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

  Pico Iyer

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

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• I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.

  James Cromwell

  Lonely, Dying, Hollywood

  "James Cromwell and Penelope Ann Miller THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 21, 2011.

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• In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Lonely, Two, Darkness

  Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our actions as our only way of self-identifiction, then we become possessive and defensive and tend to look at our fellow human beings more as enemies to be kept at a distance than as friends with whom we share the gifts of life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Lonely, Distance

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• I have gone into the waste lonely places

  Theodore Roethke

  Lonely, Gone, Waste

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.229, Anchor

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• It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

  Nancy Reagan

  Lonely, White, House

  "Exclusive: Nancy Reagan Misses Husband Now More Than Ever". abcnews.go.com. May 21, 2007.

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• Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson

  Lynda Barry

  Lonely, Dies

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• As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Lonely, Loneliness, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Lonely, Reality, Brain

  Marya Hornbacher (2008). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.326, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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