110+ Loneliness Quotes That Evoke Powerful Emotions

Loneliness is a failure to appreciate others. – Marty Rubin

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.  ― Abraham Lincoln

A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself. – Mark Twain

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

You will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply!

A lonely heart always endures deep cuts and scratches.

Only the thirsty know the real taste of water; only the lonely know the real weight of emptiness!

What makes us lonely are the feelings that we never share with anyone.

There is always an eternal mystery around the lonely souls!

Lonely souls see beauty everywhere they go.

The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

If I don’t read, I get lonely. If I don’t write, I forget who I am.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

Lonely souls see beauty everywhere they go.

As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned-for commodities in the world. The person who can provide for them will never be lonely.

We’re only as lonely as we think we are.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.

I spend so much time living by myself – mostly in hotels – and I pick up cats when I’m feeling particularly lonely.

There is no job that feels as lonely as that of a fighter but there is also no bond closer than the one he shares with his corner.

Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself.

When I feel lonely inside, nobody knows it. I never let on. I always cover it up. It eats me up.

Being human means having the capacity to be lonely; loneliness is part of what it means to be human.

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding themselves alone, so they don’t find themselves at all.

There are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn’t feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness. ― Markus Zusak

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

A lonely day is God’s way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

Somewhere there’s someone for me. Though I may be lonely now, I’ll see it through somehow, to somebody’s heart I know I hold the key.

On stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

Being alone can be a happy, free time full of doing things you really want to do.

Your life will get better when you realize it’s better to be alone than to chase people who don’t really care about you. – Thema Davis

Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.

Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can’t be open with them about who you truly are, you’re still alone.

I feel so alone in this world filled with 7 billion souls.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Being alone has a power that very few people can handle.

Even in the loneliest moments, I have been there for myself.

A little loneliness goes a long way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant, and more colorful you.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.

It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far. – Marilyn Monroe

There are two kinds of loneliness: one you feel you are all alone; the other you feel in a crowded room when you realize you are the only person who knows what it’s like to be you.

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

People run away to be alone he said. Some people had to be alone.

Yes, there is joy fulfillment, and companionship—but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. –Sylvia Plath

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around. – Richard Yates

For fear you will be alone, you do so many things that aren’t you at all.

Loneliness is a tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind.

Loneliness is cured by contact with yourself.

I’m learning a lot about myself being alone and doing what I’m doing.

I love to be alone. I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. ― Henry David Thoreau

As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

Some people can’t stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I’m a regular talking machine. It’s all or nothing for me.

The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

Don’t feel alone, because there is always someone out there who loves you more than you can imagine.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Laugh and the world laugh with you, snore and you sleep alone.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.

Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed. People may still feel lonely even among the crowd.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds. ― John Joseph Powell

The worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.

I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person is the loneliest of all.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ― Maya Angelou

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness.

If you are afraid of being lonely don’t try to be right.

Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.

If one’s different one’s bound to be lonely.

It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.

My inspirations are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, and nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that’s all I need. I’m perfectly lonely.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation, and loneliness.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face-to-face with oneself.

You’ll end up living a lonely life if you’re waiting around for perfect.

I’ve noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

People run away to be alone,’ he said. Some people had to be alone.

There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

Pray that your loneliness may spur into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.