41 Quotes About Alone and Loneliness

Adding some moments of solitude in our life is a great way to bring about a beneficial part of your well being. These quotes about being alone and loneliness are great examples to the type of suffering an individual endures.

“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”

“Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.”

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.”

“Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth.”

“Find someone who is having a hard time, or is ill, or lonely, and do something for him or her.”

“I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.”

“I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family… and that’s really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.”

“I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.”

“I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.”

“I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.”

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

“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”

“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.”

“I’ve sold my soul for freedom. It’s lonely but it’s sweet.”

“Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.”

“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.”

“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.”

“One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it, and some people can’t.”

“Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.”

“Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable – but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being ‘alone’: You can be lonely even surrounded by people.”

“Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.”

“Sometimes I get lonely, but it’s nice to be alone.”

“Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.”

“Success is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with; you’re just gonna end up lonely.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.”

“The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.”

“The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.”

“The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.”

“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.”

“To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.”

“Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.”

“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

“When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.”

“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”

“Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.”

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.”

“You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence… stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.”

Loneliness can have dire consequences for any individual that has to endure such suffering.