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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.

- Mandy Hale

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

- Michel de Montaigne

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 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 Williams

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

- Henry Rollins

Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.

- Robert Tew

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

- Pearl Buck

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

- Joel Osteen

Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

- Guillermo Maldonado

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

- Laurence Sterne

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

- Henrik Ibsen

If you smile when you are alone then you really mean it.

- Andy Rooney

As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.

- Sienna Miller

Some people can’t stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I’m a regular talking machine. It’s all or nothing for me.

- Celine Dion

The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

- Justin Timberlake

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

- Kourtney Kardashian

I like being alone. I have control over my own shit. Therefore, in order to win me over, your presence has to feel better than my solitude. You’re not competing with another person, you’re competing with my comfort zones.

- Horacio Jones

There are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.

- M.W Poetry

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

- Douglas Coupland

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

- Maya Angelou

All great and precious things are lonely.

- John Steinbeck

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.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

If you are afraid of being lonely don’t try to be right.

- Jules Renard

Sometimes you have to stand alone. Just to make sure you still can.

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Sometimes, you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.

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Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.

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If one’s different one’s bound to be lonely.

- Aldous Huxley

I’m not much but I’m all I have.

- Philip K. Dick

It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.

- Mahatma Gandhi

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

- Ellen Burstyn

Sometimes I think that my own company is more suitable for me than if I were around others. Because of the person that I am.

- Kyle Labe

I’m not much but I’m all I have.

- Philip K Dick

A broken relationship can make you feel more lonely than when you were single.

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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

There’s nothing abnormal about loneliness.

- Paula Stokes

If you want to miss your crown follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself.

- Israelmore Ayivor

I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves but I love me.

- Gene Simmons

My inspirations are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

- Enrique Iglesias

Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that’s all I need. I’m perfectly lonely.

- John Mayer

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

All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

- Jean de La Bruyère

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

- Phil McGraw

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is ever easy for those who dream.

- DandelionQuotes.com

Never search for your happiness in others, it will make you feel alone. Search it in yourself, you will feel happy even when you are left alone.

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It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.

- George Washington

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

- Annie Dillard

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

- Anne Hathaway

All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

- Blaise Pascal

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

- Haruki Murakami

I’m learning a lot about myself being alone and doing what I’m doing.

- Chantal Kreviazuk

Being alone has a power that very few people can handle.

- Steven Aitchison

Even in the loneliest moments I have been there for myself.

- Sanober Khan

One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

- Shannon L. Alder

People run away to be alone he said. Some people had to be alone.

- William Trevor

Yes there is joy fulfillment and companionship—but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.

- Sylvia Plath

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

- Henry David Thoreau

The pain of being alone is completely out of this world isn’t it? I don’t know why but I understand your feelings so much it actually hurts.

- Masashi Kishimoto

Don’t feel alone, because there is always someone out there who loves you more than you can imagine.

- Anurag Prakash Ray

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

- Audrey Hepburn

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

- Albert Schweitzer

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

- Anthony Burgess

Being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.

- Michael Josephson

It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

- Marilyn Monroe

There is a certain strength in being alone.

- Heather Duffy Stone

I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

- Hunter S. Thompson

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us.

- K.T. Jong

There are two kinds of loneliness: one you feel you are all alone; the other you feel in a crowded room, when you realize you are the only person who knows what it’s like to be you.

- Atticus

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

- Mandy Hale

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

For fear you will be alone, you do so many things that aren’t you at all.

- Richard Brautigan

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

- Carl Sagan

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.

- Simon Van Booy

To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone together. The only time you are not alone is when you forget yourself and reach out in love.

- Vera Nazarian

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one’s.

- Gregory Maguire

Eventually, we all end up alone.

- Ally Carter

It had filled my time – given me quiet, steadfast company with those characters, who did not exist and never would, but somehow made me feel less … alone.

- Sarah J. Maas

He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.

- Marguerite Duras

There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.

- Toba Beta

I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.

- Julie Metz

I don’t know why I still feel this pit in my stomach whenever I get a moment to think. I know what the pit is, too; I feel lonely. But I’m not alone, I keep telling myself.

- Pittacus Lore

Forgiving, that’s what she is, and lonely. A person can forgive a lot if they need the company.

- Ali Land

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

- Charles Bukowski

When you are lonely for a while don’t get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.

- Amit Kalantri

It’s never loneliness that nibbles away at a person’s insides, but not having room inside themselves to be comfortably alone.

- Rachel Sontag

You can’t feel lonely if there’s no one else around.

- Yamaguchi Kenji

I felt like a kid standing in the world’s greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

- Ernest Cline

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

- Charlton Heston

I did not know I was lonely, she thought, until I was no longer alone.

- Katherine Arden

Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be.

- Ellen J. Barrier

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unnecessary as when you were alone.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

All these people moving through life, all around me, and no one, not a single person, knows what I’m going through.

- Lee Thompson

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

- Helen Keller

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

- Joss Whedon

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

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

- Tahereh Mafi

This world that I live in is empty and cold. The loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

- Waylon Jennings

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

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

- Criss Jami

Life is full of misery loneliness and suffering—and it’s all over much too soon.

- Woody Allen

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

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

- Ronald Anthony Cross

If you’re lonely when you’re alone you’re in bad company.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

- Germaine Greer

We live as we dream–alone….

- Joseph Conrad

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

- Rollo May

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

- Poppy Z. Brite

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

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.

- May Sarton

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

- Mother Teresa

Depression on my left Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

- L.M. Montgomery

The best way to get approval is not to need it.

- Hugh MacLeod

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

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

The only way to survive is to admit you are on your own, learn to make your own decisions, and trust your judgement.

- Robert Greene

There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.

- Mandy Hale

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

- Louis L’Amour

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

- George Gordon Byron

If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange.

- Paulo Coelho

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life.

- Sophocles

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

- Anna Neagle

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

- George Eliot

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

- Georges Bernanos

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

- Pedro Almodovar

We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.

- Jenova Chen

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

- Paul Tillich

Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us – loneliness is one of them.

- Laurie Graham

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

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

- C. S. Lewis

I don’t fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

- Mary Roach

Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you’ll realize you have no one to turn to.

- Soraya

We’re happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time.

- Taylor Swift

You’re not alone. I’m awake and I’ve been thinking of you.

- Kygo

I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known.

- Green Day

Lonely, I’m so lonely, I have nobody to call my own.

- Akon

Don’t wanna be all by myself anymore.

- Celine Dion

I’m not the girl you’re taking home. I keep dancing on my own.

- Robyn

There is nothing more lonely or terrifying than feeling unheard.

- House of Cards

Can anybody hear me or am I talking to myself?

- Simple Plan

I think loneliness probably kills more people than cancer.

- A Simple Favor

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

- Anton Chekhov

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

- Thomas Harris

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

- Norman Cousins

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

- Edward Gibbon

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

- Gretchen Rubin

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

- Dalai Lama

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness.

- Sam Harris

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

- Tom Hanks

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.

- Joseph Conrad

Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we have.

- Vivek Murthy

There’s a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night’s.

- Ed Gorman

I think it’s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

- Amy Sedaris

We live in such a lonely world because most days we wake up and decide to marry no one but ourselves.

- Christopher Poindexter

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

- Albert Einstein

Loneliness might be taking you towards an otherwise unreachable experience of reality.

- Olivia Laing

There is something immaculate about loneliness which only lonely people can understand.

- Munia Khan

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

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.

- George Herbert

It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.

- Hans F. Hansen

I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

- Oscar Wilde

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

- Henri Nouwen

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.

- David Byrne

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

- Kyrie Irving

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

- Margaret Thatcher

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

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

- Lorraine Hansberry

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

- Gautama Buddha

The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation – at least sometimes.

- Fridtjof Nansen

We can never be afraid to stand up for what is right, no matter what others may say. And sometimes, if that means taking a lonely road, if what we are standing for is true, then perhaps moonlight or sunshine will light our way and make it less lonely.

- Pramila Jayapal

To find yourself, think for yourself.

- Socrates

Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.

- Mandy Hale

Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.

- Rupi Kaur

Your life will get better when you realize it’s better to be alone than to chase people who don’t really care about you.

- Thema Davis

Loneliness is cured by contact with yourself.

- Sven Schnieders

Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more empowering or freeing than learning to like your own company.

- Mandy Hale

Loneliness is a tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind.

- Alain de Botton

Truth is, I’m generally happiest when it’s just me. It’s okay to be madly in love with yourself.

- Richelle E. Goodrich

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.

- Richard Yates

I restore myself when I’m alone.

- Marilyn Monroe

A little loneliness goes a long way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant, and colorful you.

- Mandy Hale

A lonely day is God’s way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

- Criss Jami

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

- Thomas Mann

Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they’ve got to come. You can’t force them.

- D.H. Lawrence

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

- Wayne W. Dyer

I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

- Audrey Hepburn

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.

- Rollo May

My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.

- Patricia Highsmith

When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself.

- Fiona Apple

There are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.

- M.W Poetry

Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn’t feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.

- Markus Zusak

I feel so alone in this world filled with 7 billion souls.

- Marty Bisson Milo

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can’t be open with them about who you truly are, you’re still alone.

- Diane Chamberlain

Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls.

- Munia Khan

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

- Cheryl Strayed

I’ve never been the most important thing to anybody – not even myself.

- Ranata Suzuki

Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

- Amelia Earhart

If love grew on trees, the forlorn would frequent the forest.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

Being alone is more painful than getting hurt.

- Eiichiro Oda

Being human means having the capacity to be lonely; loneliness is part of what it means to be human.

- J. Ellsworth Kalas

When I feel lonely inside, nobody knows it. I never let on. I always cover it up. It eats me up.

- Mike Gillespie

Being alone can be a happy, free time full of doing things you really want to do.

- P. K. Hallinan

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

- Lillian Hellman

I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.

- Mary Karr

I can’t really have any friends. It’s sad, really. It’s lonely. But that’s how I am.

- Randy Moss

Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

- Maya Angelou

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

- Chris Campanioni

If you came to see the truth, the purity, it’s here inside a lonely heart.

- Michael Jackson

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

- Abraham Lincoln

If I don’t read, I get lonely. If I don’t write, I forget who I am.

- Jack Driscoll

The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

- Criss Jami

Lonely souls see beauty everywhere they go.

- Anoir Ou-Chad

We don’t have to be alone to feel lonely.

- Charles F. Glassman

We’re only as lonely as we think we are.

- Bert McCoy

You can never feel lonely in nature!

- Avijeet Das

There is always an eternal mystery around the lonely souls!

- Mehmet Murat ildan

What makes us lonely are the feelings that we never share with anyone.

- Bunny Naidu

Only the thirsty knows the real taste of water; only the lonely knows the real weight of emptiness!

- Mehmet Murat ildan

A lonely heart always endure deep cuts and scratches.

- Qamar Rafiq

You will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply!

- Mehmet Murat ildan

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

- Vladimir Putin

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

- Twyla Tharp

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

- Khalil Gibran

Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring.

- Barbara Holland

When you’re a single parent, you’re often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup … It is mothering without a net.

- Amy Dickinson

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Thats been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, thats like, youre alone.

- Erik Paulsen

lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.

- Nicole Krauss

I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

- Liv Ullmann

I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I’m never lonely.

- George Lopez

I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.

- Julia Child

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.

- Scott Fitzgerald

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

- Charles M. Schulz

We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we’ve never even met?

- David Foster Wallace

I’ve never been lonely. I’ve been in a room — I’ve felt suicidal. I’ve been depressed. I’ve felt awful — awful beyond all — but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me…or that any number of people could enter that room.

- Charles Bukowski

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

- Rollo May

The act of speaking out makes you alone.

- Ravish Kumar

Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

- Charles Bukowski

Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone.

- Arnold Rothstein

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

- Joseph F. Newton

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

Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty – and oneness with a greater whole.

- Jude Bijou

I simply adore being alone – I find it a consuming thirst – and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

- May Sarton

Alone by herself she built the kingdom that she wanted.

- R.H. Sin

You need to know how to be alone in order to know how to be together.

- Sherry Turkle

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

- Pablo Picasso

When you learn how to be alone you’ll discover the difference between alone and lonely.

- LJ Vanier

You have to go ahead, even if no one goes with you.

- Lailah Gifty Akita

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

- Henry David Thoreau

In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me.

- Van Morrison

You will go with me everywhere. When I’m dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.

- Gordon Lightfoot

I’m not the kind of man that holds out on a need for nothing. I’m as lonely as any man around, I just don’t like to pick ’em up and lay ’em down.

- Toby Keith

Lonely is the night when you find yourself alone.

- Billy Squier

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

- R. A. Salvatore

Single’s fun – you don’t have to check in with your girl, but it’s not easy. I do get lonely.

- Tommy Lee

It’s lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I’ve made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There’s joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it’s not yours.

- Ben Marcus

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

- Donald Miller

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.

- Stevie Smith

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

- Andrea Arnold

I’m an only child so am happy with my own company and I don’t really get lonely.

- Iain Banks

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There’s no one there to help you.

- Lincoln Child

Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I’m running out of time.

- Ozzy Osbourne

Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing.

- Lisa Loeb

It is sad to forget. But it’s a lonely thing to be forgotten.

- V.E. Schwab

Illness, I think, is holding unto an illusion. The loneliness while you’re holding onto it.

- Milena Michiko Flašar

I’ve learned that there’s a difference between being alone and being lonely.

- Laura Pohl

We want to be filled in many ways. Filled because empty is such a lonely feeling to live with.

- Nitya Prakash

All he wanted was someone who would let him be alone but never let him feel lonely.

- Nitya Prakash

You can never see me during my loneliest hours because I’m only lonely when you’re not around.

- Er Gen

A voice so beautiful it was almost lonely, calling out as if to someone who could not hear, on ship far away.

- Yasunari Kawabata

That next week was one of the loneliest of my life. There seemed nothing left to look forward to.

- Julian Barnes

How sad, lonely, and empty to live a life without love?

- Ken Poirot

I hate when I can’t control my loneliness.

- Leju Thomas

If you’re lonely, touch someone. Chances are, you’d end up travelling together.

- Jenim Dibie

I am lonely. I’ve been like that since I was young. But I think I am a person that needs to be lonely.

- Choi Seunghyun

Being a loner doesn’t make you lonely, but being lonely can make a loner.

- Eiro Silvigne

Your loneliness can end at any moment because the world is full lonely souls!

- Mehmet Murat ildan

Make friends with the path you are travelling on; then, you feel less lonely.

- Mehmet Murat ildan

Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely.

- Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Darkness was my best friend and loneliness my soulmate.

- Luna Marym

Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies.

- Moby

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

- Martha Beck

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I’ve had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

- Martha Beck

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn’t get lonely at times.

- George Clooney

As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It’s a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

- Melissa Leo

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

- Mortimer Adler

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

- Tori Amos

I think because I can be sad, and I can be lonely, my gift would be trying to help other people feel less lonely and less sad. Because that’s what I understand.

- Andie MacDowell

I’ve grown used to being lonely over the years, so I don’t seek to change it. But aren’t there many people who are lonely?

- Sally Field

It’s a very lonely place, being an addict.

- Kristen Johnston

I’m lonely! I’m bored!

- The Notorious B.I.G.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

- Dorothy Day

I’m lonely and I’m still kind of searching for someone I can have a real connection with.

- Miguel

It’s a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers.

- Michael Che

I couldn’t be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don’t know that I could survive the solitude of that.

- Brit Marling

I have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are insecure.

- Kate Thornton

For the first time, I lived alone… in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

- Patty Duke

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

- Lawrence Durrell

If I’m such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you’ve got somebody around who loves you.

- Judy Garland

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

- Selena Gomez

I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That’s not me at all.

- Daphne Guinness

Music was my oxygen. It’s what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

- Corey Hart

I’ve always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it’s probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.

- Rashida Jones

On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

- Janis Joplin

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn’t subdue you and make you feel abject. It’s stimulating loneliness.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

- Bill Murray

We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that’s part of your obligation.

- Bill Murray

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

- Roy Orbison

I’m on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.

- Katy Perry

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.

- Robert Plant

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people than I feel on my own.

- Henry Rollins

It’s no fun being lonely.

- Maurice Sendak

For now, I’m just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view.

- Charlie Sheen

I’ve shut myself inside these walls, and I’m going to be a very lonely old lady if I’m not careful.

- Danielle Steel

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

- Paul Theroux

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

- Alice Walker

Even if you’re independent, I think you get lonely.

- Mia Wasikowska

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

- Tennessee Williams

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

- Curtis Sittenfeld

The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.

- Steve Martin

When you’re feeling lonely and no one is around Remember to look inside yourself and a best friend will be found.

- Stephen Cosgrove

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

- Peter Carey

He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity.

- Ellen Schreiber

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I’m so lonely, so desperate. I’ll give you whatever you want.

- Janet Fitch

That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

- Carson McCullers

If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interest.

- Tom Perrotta

I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.

- Paul Baribeau

Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.

- Esther Smith

I really love playing music with other people. It’s more fun to be on the road with others. It’s kind of lonely out there when you play on your own!

- Tracy Chapman

It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.

- Charles R. Swindoll

Love and loneliness, they are both coincidences.

- M.F. Moonzajer

The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.

- Kōbō Abe

Everyone’s searching for someone to end the pain of loneliness. Even the darkest of souls wants a shot at redemption.

- Katherine McIntyre

Children are no antidote to loneliness.

- Erica Jong

Days feels like years when you’re alone.

- Auliq Ice

Loneliness is a shadow of death

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it.

- Charlotte Eriksson

The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.

- Orhan Pamuk

Thinking in loneliness and speaking in public are the two things leaders are masters at.

- Vikrmn

Ignore the loneliness, enjoy your presence.

- M.F. Moonzajer

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