100 Loneliness Quotes for You When You Feel Alone

Having feeling of loneliness and isolation? Feeling lonely is a normal human experience. We all get alone and feel a little lonely sometimes. When we are all by ourselves, no one is there to share our joy and sadness. No one in around there to talk to; except for ourselves. These tough times may seem overwhelming; but actually you can enjoy loneliness and benefit from staying alone. You can convert the state of mind from “loneliness” to “solitude“. Here are some of the best loneliness quotes for you when you feel alone.

Loneliness Quotes

1. “Loneliness is not a reality, it’s just a feeling. Convert it to SOLITUDE.” ~ Invajy

2. “I’m not much but I’m all I have.” ~ Philip K. Dick

3. “Alone is state of being or body, whereas loneliness is state of mind.” ~ Invajy

4. “Constant loneliness is emotionally lameness and it might even damage both your physical as well as mental health.” ~ Invajy

5. “Being alone doesn’t necessarily cause loneliness. Many people feel lonely despite being in the constant presence of other people.” ~ Invajy

6. “You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.” ~ Phil McGraw

7. “If you never share your feelings with anyone, you are bound to feel lonely.” ~ Invajy

8. “Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.” ~ Guillermo Maldonado

9. “What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be.” ~ Ellen Burstyn

10. “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone, and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” ~ Pau Tillich

Lonely Quotes

11. “Feeling lonely is finding yourself alone in your own parties.” ~ Invajy 
12. “You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.” ~ Gilles Deleuze
13. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ~ Maya Angelou
14. “In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.” ~ Laurence Sterne
15. “There is nothing outside of yourself. Look within. Everything you want is there.” ~ Rumi
16. “Loneliness is about perceiving that no one is there for you. But solitude is about making a choice to be alone with your thoughts.” ~ Amy Morin
17. “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
18. “The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.” ~ Henrik Ibsen
19. “We feel alone, and in this we are connected.” ~ Leo Babauta
20. “Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.” ~ Anonymous

Feeling Alone Quotes

21. “Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.” ~ Thomas Wolfe
22. “Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you’ll realize you have no one to turn to.” ~ Soraya
23. “Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” ~ Pearl Buck
24. “Sometimes you have to stand alone just to make sure you still can.” ~ Anonymous
25. “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
26. “If you are alone, you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion, you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct, and if you have more than one companion, you will fall more deeply into the same plight.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
27. “The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” ~ Douglas Coupland
28. “A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” ~ Mandy Hale
29. “There’s nothing abnormal about loneliness.” ~ Paula Stokes
30. “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely.” ~ Lorraine Hansberry

Being Alone Quotes

31. “Ah, look at all the lonely people.” ~ The Beatles
32. “The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” ~ Justin Timberlake
33. “People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.” ~ Kim Culbertson
34. “All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.” ~ Jean de La Bruyere
35. “Being alone and actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.” ~ Kourtney Kardashian
36. “As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.” ~ Sienna Miller
37. “Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.”~ Martha Beck
38. “When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.” ~ Gertrude Stein
39. “It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.” ~ Joel Osteen
40. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emer

Solitude Quotes

41. “Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.”~ Paul Tillich
42. “In the solitude of your dreams grows the flame that will bring the light to this world.” ~ Anonymous
43. “Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise, and thousands of nodding acquaintances.” ~ William Powell
44. “Ordinary men hate solitude. But the master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.” ~ Lao Tzu
45. “Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.” ~ William Orville Douglas
46. “I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its solitude. I will be the desert.” ~ Kiersten White
47. “Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.” ~ Paul Brunton
48. “Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.” ~ Marty Rubin
49. “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
50. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” ~ Michel de Montaigne

Being Lonely Quotes

51. “If you are afraid of being lonely don’t try to be right.” ~ Jules Renard
52. “The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.” ~ Deb Caletti
53. “All great and precious things are lonely.” ~ John Steinbeck
54. “Sometimes, you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.” ~ Anonymous
55. “I’ve noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.” ~ Paulo Coelho
56. “We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart…and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.” ~ Helen Hayes
57. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” ~ Henry Rollins
58. “When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.” ~ Eda J. LeShan
59. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone” ~ Orson Welles
60. “Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.” ~ Robert Tew

Loneliness Quotes

61. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” ~ Albert Einstein
62. “Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.” ~ Erma Bombeck
63. “By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.” ~ George Herbert
64. “If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.” ~ Andy Rooney
65. “There are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.” ~ W Poetry
66. “I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.” ~ Oscar Wilde
67. “The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.” ~ Mitch Albom
68. “Pray that your loneliness may spur into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold
69. “You’ll end up living a lonely life if you’re waiting around for perfect.” ~ Samantha Young
70. “A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.” ~ Bertrand Russell

Heart Touching Lonely Quotes

71. “Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness.” ~ Janet Fitch
72. “I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.” ~ Robin Williams
73. “No one is ever alone and silence does not equate defeat.” ~ Joan Ambu
74. “Find company within yourself and you’ll never spend a day alone. Find love within yourself and you’ll never have a lonely day.”~ Connor Chalfant
75. “If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
76. “My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.” ~ Khalil Gibran
77. “Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.” ~ Rollo May
78. “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” ~ Mother Teresa
79. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
80. “Loneliness might be taking you towards an otherwise unreachable experience of reality.” ~ Olivia Laing

Loneliness Quotes

81. “It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.” ~ Hans F. Hansen
82. “You have to go ahead, even if no one goes with you.” ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
83. “Spend time with yourself to discover your inner beauty.” ~ Invajy
84. “Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” ~ Pablo Picasso
85. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can, and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” ~ Gautama Buddha
86. “Make the time to be alone. Your best ideas live within solitude.” ~ Robin Sharma
87. “My inspirations are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.” ~ Enrique Iglesias
88. “I restore myself when I’m alone.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
89. “The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.” ~ Hugh MacLeod
90. “It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Pain of Loneliness Quotes

91. “Days feels like years when you’re alone.” ~ Auliq Ice
92. “Everyone’s searching for someone to end the pain of loneliness. Even the darkest of souls wants a shot at redemption.” ~ Katherine McIntyre
93. “Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It’s part of the human experience, and in a way brings us closer to all people.”~ Juliette Fay
94. “Being alone is more painful than getting hurt.” ~ Eiichiro Oda
95. “Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.” ~ Richard Yates
96. “If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.” ~ Jodi Picoult
97. “Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering, and it’s all over much too soon.” ~ Woody Allen
98. “Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.” ~ Thomas Harris
99. “There is nothing more lonely or terrifying than feeling unheard.” ~ House of Cards
100. “We’re happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time.” ~ Taylor Swift

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