Lonely Quotations | Page 6

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.

I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top,

I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.