#lonely

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated. ↗

— David Bowie

#christ #different #different way #each #explore

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 H. Breasted

#ancestors #broad #cities #civilization #efforts

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. ↗

— Jimmy Cannon

#holiday #lonely #rejected

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

— Charlie Chaplin

#adventure #always #dreamer #fellow #gentleman

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#cannot #like #lonely #person #you

An actor's life is fairly lonely. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#fairly #life #lonely

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #followed #get #here #institution

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#gatsby #lonely #love #romance #love

They don't know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness inside of me and turns into love and light. ↗

— Tara Brown

#lonely #love #love

I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#lonely #sad #sadness #sorrow #sad