39 Quotes About Depression and Loneliness

There is not an easy cure for loneliness. From suffering through an age of depression, being lonely can leave you experiencing dark thoughts. Here is a look at some of the best quotes about depression and loneliness that capture the essence of these emotions.

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”

“Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles.”

“How we need another soul to cling to.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason.”

“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.”

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

“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 one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.”

“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.”

“I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”

“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.”

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”

“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”

“Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It’s just too much for them.”

“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.”

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”

“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

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

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

“We live as we dream–alone…”

“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering.”

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”

“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.”

“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.”

Dealing with loneliness can leave you feeling empty and alone.