Loneliness Quotes

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.

People think they know me, but they don't. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.