These lonely quotes will inspire you. Lonely, sad from being apart from other people, or sad because one has no friends or company.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging lonely quotes, lonely sayings, and lonely proverbs.
Best Lonely Quotes
- “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” ~ Douglas Coupland
- “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
- “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
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“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
- “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 who make you feel all alone.” ~ Robin Williams , Feeling lonely quotes
- “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
- “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
- “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” ~ Lois Lowry
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“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.” ~ Paul Tournier
- “Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.” ~ Aristotle
- “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” ~ Mark Twain
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“It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.” ~ Bruce Barton
- “This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.” ~ Waylon Jennings
- “Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Be good and you will be lonely.” ~ Mark Twain
- “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
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“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “All great and precious things are lonely.” ~ John Steinbeck
- “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
- “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” ~ Bell Hooks
- “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” ~ George Eliot
- “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
- “The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.” ~ Mason Cooley
- “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” ~ Mark Twain
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“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.” ~ Lorraine Hansberry
- “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.” ~ May Sarton
- “Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.” ~ Mary Oliver
- “The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.” ~ Mary Balogh
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“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside” ~ Anne Frank
- “Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named not good.” ~ John Milton
- “We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
- “People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.” ~ Anton Chekhov
- “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” ~ Pearl S. Buck , Heart touching lonely quotes
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“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.” ~ Tennessee Williams
- “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.” ~ Voltaire
- “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” ~ Dante Alighieri
- “It is better to be alone than in bad company.” ~ Unknown
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“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
- “The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
- “There is much suffering in the world – physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.” ~ Mother Teresa
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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.” ~ James F. Cooper
- “Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.” ~ Henry Miller
- “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
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“Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” ~ Paul Tillich
- “I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.” ~ Yousuf Karsh
- “A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.” ~ George Bernard Shaw , Touching lonely quotes for him
- “A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.” ~ John Cheever
- “Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.” ~ Dan Brown
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“If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?” ~ Judy Garland
- “We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.” ~ Yul Brynner
- “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
- “Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold
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“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had ‘Loneliness’ and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.” ~ Carl Sandburg
- “Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.” ~ Germaine Greer
