#lonely

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. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #feeling #felt #fine #gay

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#alfie #back #because #came #christmas

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends? ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#be true #ever #friends #gets #guess

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things. ↗

— Robert Plant

#aspects #being #being alone #feel #i

It's a dismally lonely business, writing. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#lonely #lonely business #writing

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#bad #captive #ever #however #i

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#anybody #anymore #anything #certain #enterprise

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#bad #company #lonely #you

It's no fun being lonely. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#fun #lonely

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was! ↗

— Andy Taylor

#artist #being #discovered #how #i