Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

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.

It's part of a writer's profession as it's part of a spy's profession to prey on the community to which he's attached to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me but it's a lonely place even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

I am happy as happiness goes for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

For in the end freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

While I have felt lonely many times in my life the oddest feeling of all was after my mother Lucille died. My father had already died but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely yet I did.

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I think people tend to see the bigger point which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

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.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief the souvenir of pain.

You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States I feel like if I just think about Taiwan my friends my fans I won't feel like I'm alone.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

I would say 'I'm alone but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

For the first time I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea but I got lonely and restless.

As far as loneliness I feel Los Angeles and its layout having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

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.