Lonely
Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.
Alone, or in want of company; forsaken.
Not frequented by human beings; as, a lonely wood.
Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome.
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Lonely Quotations
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert Einstein
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Wayne Dyer
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
Margaret Thatcher
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Erma Bombeck
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Robert Frost
For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view.
Charlie Sheen
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.
Leo Buscaglia
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot
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.
Richard M. Nixon
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Tecumseh
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
Adlai E. Stevenson
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
Sitting Bull
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Charles Baudelaire
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
Truman Capote
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
John Milton
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Mortimer Adler
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Anton Chekhov
If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Judy Garland
It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.
Judy Garland
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Lonely Translations
lonely in Afrikaans is eensaam
lonely in Dutch is eenzaam
lonely in French is solitaire
lonely in German is einsam
lonely in Italian is unico
lonely in Norwegian is ensom
lonely in Spanish is solo, solitario
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