These lonely quotes echo the realities of life at times. Loneliness can be the reason for sorrow in life. Many folks have said a lot about this subject and how despairingly difficult it is to bear the pain. A person can become and feel lonely for so many reasons but coping with it can be one of the most difficult things in life. If you are dealing with these feelings, hopefully these quotes might help you understand your situation better and may even soothe your heart.
Quotes about Being Lonely
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
John Berger
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
Ellen Burstyn
Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone.
Arnold Rothstein
If you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.
Richard Yates
The trouble is not really in being alone, it’s being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don’t you think?
Christine Feehan
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Lord Byron
Loneliness and Sorrow
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
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
Elizabeth Gilbert
He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
Patrick Süskind
Until you get comfortable with being alone you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
Mandy Hale
The person who tries to keep everyone happy often ends up feeling the loneliest.
Unknown
Loneliness Sayings
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
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
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
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
Georges Bernanos
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.
Robert Fulghum
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Alone Quotes
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People who cannot bear to be alone are generally the worst company.
Albert Guino
I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
Audrey Hepburn
When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.
Ronald Anthony
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz
Sometimes you just have to stand alone to make sure you still can.
Unknown
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
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
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Feeling Lonely Quotes
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes it’s better to be alone, no one can hurt you that way.
Tinku Razoria
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
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
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Lois Lowry
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Albert Schweitzer
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman Cousins
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. Clarke
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.
Douglas Coupland
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No Friends
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Benito Mussolini
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
I have no friends and no enemies – only competitors.
Aristotle Onassis
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
Quotes about Being Lost and Sad
Not all those who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw
I’m not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I’m not sure that I want to wake up.
Gayle Forman
My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.
Nina LaCour
Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.
Erol Ozan
No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight.
Lana Del Rey
The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight- way was lost.
Dante Alighieri
No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.
Joyce Rupp
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Michel de Montaigne
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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