Loner Quotes - Page 2

• I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.

  Ricky Williams

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

  Karen Armstrong

  Silence, Solitude, Gregarious

  "A question of faith" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2007.

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• I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story; it's fine for me.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Stories, Clubs

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• I am essentially a loner.

  Lauren Bacall

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• Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Reading, School

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 09, 2015

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• I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

  Steve Martin

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  "All about my father". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.

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• I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Teenager, Events, Social

  "Mia Wasikowska: 'There's a common misconception that the loud kid in the class is the actor" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2011.

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• There are so many fantastic roles, but the ones that have always drawn me to them are the loners who, for whatever reason, never quite fit in and knew it and had to find their own way. I've always been drawn to that, for some reason. I've always been drawn to that sad, isolated place, but what it produces in behavior is something else, entirely. For whatever reason, I'm drawn to these people. Essentially, I think what draws me is that they are survivors against rather considerable odds.

  Ann Dowd

  Thinking, People, Survivor

  Source: collider.com

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• Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.

  Anneli Rufus

  Running, Mistake, Walking Away

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• I saw the yearbook picture. There was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends now! That's three on three with a half court.

  Chris Rock

  School, Yearbook, Three

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• There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Interview with Ricky Young, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

  Paul Tillich

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.

  Sherry Turkle

  Loneliness, Emotional, Self

  Sherry Turkle (1985). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, Touchstone Books

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• But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

  William Manchester

  Men, Void

  William Manchester (1967). “The Death Of A President”

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• I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.

  John Milius

  Integrity, Men, Live Your Life

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• I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him.

  George Carlin

  Children, Bother, Imaginary Friend

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• I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

  Richard Pryor

  Hung

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• Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

  Earl Butz

  Personality, Cold, Kind

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• How will you be remembered? As a loner and a loser.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Loser, Remembered

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• I was never less alone than when by myself.

  Edward Gibbon

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

  Edward Gibbon, John Baker Holroyd (2014). “Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire”, p.83, Cambridge University Press

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• There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.

  Florence King

  Sex, Slim, Celibacy

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.10, Macmillan

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• I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Lonely, Dad, Nice

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.

  Katherine Moennig

  Thinking, Would Be, Scared

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• As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Children, Hands, Parent

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

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• People souls - perennial loners. They're loners like stray stars.

  Antoni Lange

  Stars, People, Soul

  "Loneliness" by Antoni Lange,

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