Quotations About / On: LONELY

Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

The most comfortable prison is still a lonely place.

Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray?

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

You'll stay here with me my child, won't you? It's been so lonely without you. But you've come to me at last, haven't you? Now you'll sing for me and I'll play and we'll be together forever.