Are you feeling isolated and alone?
We’ve curated a comforting list of loneliness quotes to help heal those sad and painful emotions.
Feeling this way isn’t abnormal.
Humans have an innate need to connect with others on a deep level.
这意味着,虽然你可能被人包围ple throughout the day, you can still experience a deep and prevalent sense of loneliness.
Reading quotes about being alone can help inspire you to reach out to new people or re-engage with those you may have lost touch with.
Fortunately, a lot of great writers, intellectuals, and philosophers have offered some impactful and inspiring words about this all-too-common feeling of being alone.
201 Loneliness Quotes:
Deep Loneliness Quotes
1. Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. –Helen Keller
2.当我们真正意识到我们都是独自一人when we need others the most. –Ronald Anthony Cross
3. If you are afraid of being lonely don’t try to be right. –Jules Renard
4. 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
5. Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. –Germaine Greer
6. This world that I live in is empty and cold. The loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
–Waylon Jennings
7. Until you get comfortable with being alone you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness. –Mandy Hale
8. Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for great enough to die for. –Dag Hammarskjold
9. 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
10. Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony. –Douglas Coupland
11. Life is full of misery loneliness and suffering—and it’s all over much too soon. –Woody Allen
12. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. –Mother Theresa
13. Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. –Joss Whedon
14. If you’re lonely when you’re alone you’re in bad company. –Jean-Paul Sartre
15. Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. –Thomas Wolfe
16. Yes there is joy fulfillment and companionship—but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. –Sylvia Plath
17. 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
18. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. –Tahereh Mafi
19. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. –John Steinbeck
20. We live as we dream–alone…. –Joseph Conrad
21. 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
22. If one’s different one’s bound to be lonely. –Aldous Huxley
23. 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
24. It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead I feel painfully visible and entirely ignored. –David Levithan
25. 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
26. I’m not much but I’m all I have. –Philip K. Dick
27. 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
28. It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know.
–David Foster Wallace
29. Some nights are made for torture or reflection or the savoring of loneliness. –Poppy Z. Brite
30. If a man cannot understand the beauty of life it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. –Criss Jami
31. Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. –May Sarton
32. My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. –Ursula K. Le Guin
33. 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
34. 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
35. 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
36. My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. –Kahlil Gibran
37. Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help. –Criss Jami
38. I think there is a price to being alone and there is a price to being in a relationship. It all depends on which price you want to pay – but none of them are free. –Lonny Price
39. Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. –Haruki Murakami
40. Deep down the young are lonelier than the old. –Anne Frank
41. What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? –George Eliot
42. Over time loneliness gets inside you and doesn’t go away. –Carlos Ruiz Zafón
43. Lonely was much better than alone. –Toni Morrison
44. To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
45. Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness but she couldn’t help it. –Lauren Kate
46. I believe in whatever gets you through the night. Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me anyway. It lasts so long and four a.m. knows all my secrets. –Poppy Z. Brite
47. Eternity is a long time to spend alone without others of your kind. –Cassandra Clare
Forever Alone Quotes
49. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. –Mitch Albom
50. Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. –Henry Rollins
51. If you smile when you are alone then you really mean it. –Andy Rooney
52. That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other. –Rainer Maria Rilke
53. What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. –Ellen Burstyn
54. You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.
–Amit Ray
55. Because once alone it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. Marilynne Robinson
56. Even in the loneliest moments I have been there for myself. –Sanober Khan
57. I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition by necessity if not by nature. –Rachel Hartman
58. I’m all alone but I’m not lonely. –Haruki Murakami
59. If I could always read I should never feel the want of company. –George Gordon Byron
60. I am lonely sometimes but I dare say it’s good for me… Louisa May Alcott
61. I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness. –Bill Callahan
62. I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work. –Orhan Pamuk
63. Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone. –Marty Rubin
64. People run away to be alone he said. Some people had to be alone. –William Trevor
65. There’s a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night’s. –Ed Gorman
66. Yes after all this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark. –Walter de la Mare
67. It is better to be alone than in bad company. –George Washington
68. 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
69. 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
70. I’ve always loved the night when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.
–Jonathan Harnisch
71. I was not unhappy. I wanted to be with someone. But it didn’t trouble me that I was alone. –André Aciman
72. We isolated ourselves because it hurt less. –Jodi Picoult
73. Kill the loneliness by being with yourself all alone. –Vikrmn Corpkshetra
74. If you find yourself in the middle of nowhere allow your mind to go everywhere. –Jenim Dibie
75. It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone. –Marilyn Monroe
76. I don’t want to be alone I want to be left alone. –Audrey Hepburn
77. Sometimes it’s better to be alone no one can hurt you that way. –Tinku Razoria
78.有时我认为我自己的公司suitable for me than if I were around others. Because of the person that I am. –Kyle Labe
79. 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
80. None of us are really alone as long as we’re lonely. –Maggie Stiefvater
81. He would be lonely all his life. But a man took it for his share and went on. –Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
82. There’s nothing abnormal about loneliness. –Paula Stokes
83. Turn your loneliness into singing and praying and you shall realize that you are never alone at all –Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
84. If I can teach myself the art of loneliness then perhaps the art of writing will come more easily to me. –Nell Stevens
85. Even in an empty room we are never alone.
–Wayne Gerard Trotman
86. No one is ever alone and silence does not equate defeat. –Joan Ambu
87. It is good to be alone for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it. –Rainer Maria Rilke
88. You better go alone than with negative people! –Israelmore Ayivor
89. If you want to miss your crown follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown go alone and be yourself. –Israelmore Ayivor
90. An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely. –Brian W. Aldiss
91. 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
92. I want to be with those who know
secret things or else alone.
–Rainer Maria Rilke
93. I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does. –Henry Rollins
94. We must become so alone so utterly alone that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome we are no longer alone for we find that our innermost self is the spirit that it is God the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world yet undisturbed by its multiplicity for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being. –Hermann Hesse
95. 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
96. If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU to learn how strong you really are to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer deeper more vibrant and colorful YOU. –Mandy Hale
97. I am alone I thought and they are everybody. –Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love and Loneliness Quotes
98. I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long I will stay with you. If you need the medication again go ahead and take it—I will love you through that as well. If you don’t need the medication I will love you too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. –Elizabeth Gilbert
99. 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
100. How we need another soul to cling to. –Sylvia Plath
101. 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
102. I thought the love I’d had for him belonged to the past to the foolish lonely girl I never wanted to be again. I’d tried to bury that girl and the love she’d felt just as I’d tried to bury my power. But I wouldn’t make that mistake again. –Leigh Bardugo
103. 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
104. To me you were more than just a person. You were a place where I finally felt at home. –Denice Envall
105. I’m just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don’t dream of you anymore. –Lone Alaskan Gypsy
106. Ever been so happy for someone and so aware of how lonely their happiness makes you feel at the same time? –Carey Heywood
107. He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now their forms at a distance their shadows on the walls. –F. Scott Fitzgerald
108. Unless we love and are loved each of us is alone each of us is deeply lonely.
–Mortimer Adler
109. I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness. Wilbur Smith
110. 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
111. Feelings such as loneliness longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that’s why we all love music because it resonates with something we can’t share. –Agnes Obel
112. I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up. –Taylor Swift
113. I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write. –Louise Penny
114. There is pleasure in the pathless woods there is rapture in the lonely shore there is society where none intrudes by the deep sea and music in its roar; I love not Man the less but Nature more. –Lord Byron
115. 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
116. 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
117. I secretly enjoy being alone – hiking alone skiing alone walking along the beach alone going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong I like sharing my life with other people but sometimes really enjoy being as alone as possible. –Josh Zuckerman
118. We’re born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. –Orson Welles
119.直到你得到适应独自一人哟u’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness. –Mandy Hale
120. I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves but I love me. –Gene Simmons
121. 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. –Celine Dion
122. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
— Henry David Thoreau
123. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. — Wayne Dyer
124. And sometimes I just need to be alone so I can cry without being judged so I can think without being interrupted so I don’t bring anyone else down with me. — Unknown
125. Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone accept everything alone. –Ferdinand Marcos
126. Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed. –Thomas Harris
127. It’s clear to me that anyone anywhere can experience loneliness isolation solitude and estrangement, and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives. –Brendan Myers
Famous Quotes on Loneliness
128. Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. –Henry Rollins
129. Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. –Paul Tillich
130. 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
131. I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness. –Wilbur Smith
132. But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, it’s stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind. –Buffalo Bill
133. In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. –John Steinbeck
134. There comes a real loneliness in celebrity where you’re constantly told you’re part of an outgroup in your own society. –Cole Sprouse
135. My inspirations are the woman, friendship, and loneliness. –Enrique Iglesias
136. There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. –Tom Hanks
137. When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
–Whitney Houston
138. When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. –Tennessee Williams
139. I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. –Henry David Thoreau
140. I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself. Warsan Shire
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. –Sir Philip Sidney
141. The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. –Mark Twain
142. We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. –Orson Welles
143. Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. –Maya Angelou
144. 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
145. Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering—and it’s all over much too soon. –Woody Allen
146. 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
147. It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. –Albert Einstein
148. A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. –Charlie Chaplin
149. Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make younot feel lonely, even when you are. –Tom Hanks
150. One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it, and some people can’t. –Kyrie Irving
151. I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.
–Rihanna
152. 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. –Bill Murray
153. Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it. Jarod Kintz
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. –Douglas Coupland
154. The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. –Jules Verne
155. Success is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with; you’re just gonna end up lonely. –Selena Gomez
156. Everyone’s alone — or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I’m sure they don’t. Is that a delusion? –T.S. Eliot
157.撕碎了我的心和关闭它。没有do, 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. –John Mayer
158. Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
159. There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. –Lord Byron
160. Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. –Dag Hammarskjold
161. The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. –Anne Frank
162. Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
— Jean Paul
163. 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. –Maya Angelou
164. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. –Mother Teresa
165. Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. –Mother Teresa
166. History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. –Thomas Carlyle
167. I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. — Frida Kahlo
168.世界上最强壮的人是斯坦ds most alone. –Henrik Ibsen
169. The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.
–Norman Cousins
170 The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account. –Alice Walker
171. All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. –Jean de La Bruyère
172. It’s a terrible thing to be alone — yes it is — it is — but don’t lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath –as terrible as you like –but a mask. –Katherine Mansfield
173. If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. –Jean-Paul Sartre
174. We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams
175. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. –Wayne Dyer
176. 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.
–Dag Hammarskjöld
177. At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self. –Brendan Francis
178. Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness. –Poppy Z. Brite
179. Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier. –Lillian Hellman
180. It is good to be lonely, for being alone is not easy. The fact that something is difficult must be one more reason to do it. — Rilke
181. Pretending to be happy when you’re alone is an example of how strong you are as a person.
Take care of your thoughts when you’re alone. And take care of your words when you’re with people. We are all so much together but we are all dying of loneliness. — Albert Schweitzer
Sad Loneliness Quotes
182. We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we’ve never even met? — David Foster Wallace
183. Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.
— Douglas Coupland
184. Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami
185. I’m so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand? — David Foster Wallace
186. 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
187. I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic. — Augusten Burroughs
188. I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. — Anaïs Nin
189. I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable. — Henry Miller
190. The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. –Lois Lowry
191. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. — Charles M. Schulz
192. You want to ask, am I lonely? Well, of course, lonely as a woman driving across country day after day, leaving behind mile after mile little towns she might have stopped and lived and died in. — Adrienne Rich
193. Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. — Charles Bukowski
194. You can’t be strong all the time. Sometimes you just need to be alone
and let your tears out.
— Unknown
195. 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
196. The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but thatI am lonelyand likely to stay lonely. –Charlotte Brontë
197. There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. –Alexander Theroux
198. Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. — Thomas Wolfe
199. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. — Mother Teresa
200. Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. –Edna St. Vincent Millay
201. Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone. — Rollo May
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Use these lonely quotes to improve your life.
What makes us truly happy and content in life?
有些人可能认为答案是财富或成功,but studies have often shown that human connections — friends and family– are the main source ofhappiness.
Reading these lonely quotes may gift you a lift, but consider using these quotes to connect with other people.
- Share them on social media or with a friend.
- Call someone you haven’t spoken with in a while and read your favorite quote to him or her.
- Use one of these quotes to communicate to a loved one how you are feeling.
- Send a card to another person who feels isolated and include one of these messages.
Your efforts to reach out to others, even when it feels uncomfortable, is the first step toward feeling less lonesome.
What are some loneliness quotes that speak to you and help you cope with your feelings?
Did you find any value from these quotes about loneliness?
I hope you’ll use these loneliness quotes to help you when you’re having a sad day. Which lonely quotes were the more helpful and inspirational for you?