Mary Barnett Gilson Quotes

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

The writer is all alone.

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

It's lonely up here.

On the top you are always lonely.

People say it's lonely at the top, but I sure like the view.

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

It's lonely on the top when there's no one on the bottom.

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

I felt very alone in Hollywood.

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.