Loneliness makes a person feel alone, unwanted, and empty inside. People in this state crave social contact. But due to their state of mind, it's hard for them to connect with others. May these quotes about loneliness in life give you insights that will make you realize the troubles of being lonely and help you overcome them.
1. “If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.” – Aldous Huxley
2. “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.” – Daniel Keyes
3. “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
4. “The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.” – Deb Caletti
5. “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” – May Sarton
6. “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
7. “There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.” – Charles Bukowski
8. “So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.” – Sylvia Plath
9. “My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.” – Khalil Gibran
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10. “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” – Arthur C. Clarke
11. “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
12. “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.” – Douglas Coupland
13. “It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.” – David Levithan
14. “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
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15. “Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms.” – Guy de Maupassant
16. “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
17. “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
18. “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
19. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry
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20. “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.” – Haruki Murakami
21. “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
22. “But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.” – Calla Quinn
23. “Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.” – Haruki Murakami
24. “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.” – Honoré de Balzac
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25. “Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.” – D. H. Lawrence
26. “The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend.” – Edith Wharton
27. “A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” – Mandy Hale
28. “Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” – John Steinbeck
29. “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
30. “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 William
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31. “It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die.” – Hannah Harrington
32. “Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.” – Robert Tew
33. “She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered different. She did not suffer too much.” – Betty Smith
34. “If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?” – Lisa Kleypas
35. “There are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.” – M.W Poetry
36. “For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.” – Laini Taylor
37. “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
38. “Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.” – Charles Bukowski
39. “If you are afraid of being lonely don’t try to be right.” – Jules Renard
40. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” – Maya Angelou
41. “When I get lonely these days, I think: So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
42. “Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.” – Charlotte Eriksson
43. “We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.” – Dorothy Day
44. “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.” – Charlotte Bronte
45. “Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone. 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.” – Dan Brown
46. “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.” – George R.R. Martin
47. “When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.” – Mitch Albom
48. “To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.” – Suzanne Gordon
49. “Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.” – Marilynne Robinson
50. “Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
51. “A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
52. “Pray that your loneliness may spur into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” – Dag Hammarskjold
53. “The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.” – Alan Lightman
54. “There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.” – Isaac Asimov
55. “Don’t fear solitude: If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. But don’t get too attached to it – it may become an addiction.” – Paulo Coelho
56. “Sometimes you have to stand alone. Just to make sure you still can.” – Anonymous
57. “Sometimes it’s better to be alone no one can hurt you that way.” – Tinku Razoria
58. “Sometimes, you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.” – Anonymous
59. “Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.” – Thomas Wolfe
60. “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
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2. “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.” – Daniel Keyes
3. “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
4. “The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.” – Deb Caletti
5. “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” – May Sarton
6. “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
7. “There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.” – Charles Bukowski
8. “So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.” – Sylvia Plath
9. “My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.” – Khalil Gibran
11. “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
12. “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.” – Douglas Coupland
13. “It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.” – David Levithan
14. “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
16. “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
17. “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
18. “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
19. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry
21. “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
22. “But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.” – Calla Quinn
23. “Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.” – Haruki Murakami
24. “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.” – Honoré de Balzac
26. “The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend.” – Edith Wharton
27. “A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” – Mandy Hale
28. “Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” – John Steinbeck
29. “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
30. “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 William
More Feeling Lonely Quotes
31. “It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die.” – Hannah Harrington
32. “Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.” – Robert Tew
33. “She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered different. She did not suffer too much.” – Betty Smith
34. “If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?” – Lisa Kleypas
35. “There are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.” – M.W Poetry
36. “For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.” – Laini Taylor
37. “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
38. “Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.” – Charles Bukowski
39. “If you are afraid of being lonely don’t try to be right.” – Jules Renard
40. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” – Maya Angelou
41. “When I get lonely these days, I think: So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
42. “Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.” – Charlotte Eriksson
43. “We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.” – Dorothy Day
44. “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.” – Charlotte Bronte
45. “Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone. 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.” – Dan Brown
46. “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.” – George R.R. Martin
47. “When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.” – Mitch Albom
48. “To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.” – Suzanne Gordon
49. “Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.” – Marilynne Robinson
50. “Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
51. “A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
52. “Pray that your loneliness may spur into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” – Dag Hammarskjold
53. “The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.” – Alan Lightman
54. “There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.” – Isaac Asimov
55. “Don’t fear solitude: If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. But don’t get too attached to it – it may become an addiction.” – Paulo Coelho
56. “Sometimes you have to stand alone. Just to make sure you still can.” – Anonymous
57. “Sometimes it’s better to be alone no one can hurt you that way.” – Tinku Razoria
58. “Sometimes, you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.” – Anonymous
59. “Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.” – Thomas Wolfe
60. “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
Share these Sad Lonely Quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.