Loneliness Quotes
Loneliness is an unpleasant emotional response to perceived isolation. A lot of people are forced into loneliness and isolation due to class, race or so many other reasons.
In this article, we have compiled an array of loneliness quotes to help you overcome loneliness. Also, these quotes will remind you that it is better to be alone than in bad company.
60 Quotes About Loneliness & Feeling Lonely
This world that I live in is empty and cold. The loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
–Waylon Jennings
–Waylon Jennings
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. –Helen Keller
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. –Germaine Greer
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for great enough to die for. –Dag Hammarskjold
Life is full of misery loneliness and suffering—and it’s all over much too soon. –Woody Allen
If you’re lonely when you’re alone you’re in bad company. –Jean-Paul Sartre
Yes there is joy fulfillment and companionship—but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. –Sylvia Plath
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. –Mother Theresa
If you are afraid of being lonely don’t try to be right. –Jules Renard
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. –Tahereh Mafi
A great fire burns within me but no one stops to warm themselves at it and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke. –Vincent van Gogh
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes and felt it in others–young clerks in the dusk wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. –F. Scott Fitzgerald
Some nights are made for torture or reflection or the savoring of loneliness. –Poppy Z. Brite
The pain of being alone is completely out of this world isn’t it? I don’t know why but I understand your feelings so much it actually hurts. –Masashi Kishimoto
Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it. –Jane Espenson
Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. –Haruki Murakami
Over time loneliness gets inside you and doesn’t go away. –Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Eternity is a long time to spend alone without others of your kind. –Cassandra Clare
Even in the loneliest moments I have been there for myself. –Sanober Khan
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work. –Orhan Pamuk
I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear love death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same. –Martha Gellhorn
Kill the loneliness by being with yourself all alone. –Vikrmn Corpkshetra
Why be crying fearful lonely when you have the whole universe? Be still listen to your heart breathe and know you need nothing. –Jay Woodman
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” — Johann Wolfgange Von Goethe
When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most. –Ronald Anthony Cross
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart and all they can do is stare blankly. –F. Scott Fitzgerald
Until you get comfortable with being alone you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness. –Mandy Hale
Let me tell you this: 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
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony. –Douglas Coupland
Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. –Joss Whedon
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. –Thomas Wolfe
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you that’s when I think life is over.–Audrey Hepburn
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. –Anne Hathaway
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead I feel painfully visible and entirely ignored. –David Levithan
I realize for the first time how very lonely I’ve been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be. –Suzanne Collins
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. –May Sarton
Depression on my left Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well. –Elizabeth Gilbert
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. –Kahlil Gibran
Deep down the young are lonelier than the old. –Anne Frank
Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness but she couldn’t help it. –Lauren Kate
Because once alone it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. Marilynne Robinson
I am lonely sometimes but I dare say it’s good for me… Louisa May Alcott
Sometimes it’s better to be alone no one can hurt you that way. –Tinku Razoria
Turn your loneliness into singing and praying and you shall realize that you are never alone at all –Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you want to miss your crown follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown go alone and be yourself. –Israelmore Ayivor
Lonely people tend rather to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly. –David Foster Wallace
For Beatrice when we first met I was lonely and you were pretty. I was lonely and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.–Lemony Snicket
Unless we love and are loved each of us is alone each of us is deeply lonely.–Mortimer Adler
Loneliness sucks. It’s a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different ball game. –Lynn Coady
Maybe true love isn’t out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.–Roxane Gay
If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me then that is what I will find in my world. –Louise L. Hay
He says he’s lonely horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why. –Marguerite Duras
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. –Charlotte Brontë
Loneliness teaches and shows you the real and unreal and such things that one can never understand and even imagine living with others. –Ehsan Sehgal
If I can teach myself the art of loneliness then perhaps the art of writing will come more easily to me. –Nell Stevens
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
There’s a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night’s. –Ed Gorman
I’m all alone but I’m not lonely. –Haruki Murakami
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. –Henry Rollins
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? –George Eliot