The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
- Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheA season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.
- Mandy HaleThe greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
- Michel de MontaignePeople 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 CulbertsonI 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 WilliamsLoneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
- Henry RollinsSometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.
- Robert TewNothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonInside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
- Pearl BuckA 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 SchopenhauerIt is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.
- Joel OsteenLoneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.
- Guillermo MaldonadoIn solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
- Laurence SterneThe strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
- Henrik IbsenIf you smile when you are alone then you really mean it.
- Andy RooneyAs I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.
- Sienna MillerSome 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 DionThe best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
- Justin TimberlakeBeing alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.
- Kourtney KardashianI 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 JonesThere are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.
- M.W PoetryRemember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.
- Douglas CouplandMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
- Maya AngelouAll great and precious things are lonely.
- John SteinbeckWhen 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 GilbertLoneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness.
- Janet FitchIf you are afraid of being lonely don’t try to be right.
- Jules RenardSometimes you have to stand alone. Just to make sure you still can.
-Sometimes, you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.
-Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.
-If one’s different one’s bound to be lonely.
- Aldous HuxleyI’m not much but I’m all I have.
- Philip K. DickIt’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
- Mahatma GandhiWhat a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
- Ellen BurstynSometimes 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 LabeI’m not much but I’m all I have.
- Philip K DickA broken relationship can make you feel more lonely than when you were single.
- PictureQuotes.comFind company within yourself and you’ll never spend a day alone. Find love within yourself and you’ll never have a lonely day.
- Connor ChalfantThere’s nothing abnormal about loneliness.
- Paula StokesIf you want to miss your crown follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself.
- Israelmore AyivorI’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 SimmonsMy inspirations are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
- Enrique IglesiasTore 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 MayerIf 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 VinciAll men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
- Jean de La BruyèreYou’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.
- Phil McGrawTo live alone is the fate of all great souls.
- Arthur SchopenhauerLife is ever easy for those who dream.
- DandelionQuotes.comNever 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.
- Awesomequotesforyou.comIt is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.
- George WashingtonThe surest sign of age is loneliness.
- Annie DillardLoneliness 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 HathawayAll man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
- Blaise PascalLoneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
- Haruki MurakamiI’m learning a lot about myself being alone and doing what I’m doing.
- Chantal KreviazukBeing alone has a power that very few people can handle.
- Steven AitchisonEven in the loneliest moments I have been there for myself.
- Sanober KhanOne of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
- Shannon L. AlderPeople run away to be alone he said. Some people had to be alone.
- William TrevorYes there is joy fulfillment and companionship—but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.
- Sylvia PlathI love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David ThoreauThe 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 KishimotoDon’t feel alone, because there is always someone out there who loves you more than you can imagine.
- Anurag Prakash RayI don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
- Audrey HepburnWe are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert SchweitzerLaugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
- Anthony BurgessBeing 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 JosephsonIt’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
- Marilyn MonroeThere is a certain strength in being alone.
- Heather Duffy StoneI don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
- Hunter S. ThompsonIt 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. JongThere 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.
- AtticusUntil you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
- Mandy HaleIf you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.
- Richard YatesFor fear you will be alone, you do so many things that aren’t you at all.
- Richard BrautiganIn all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
- Carl SaganLoneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.
- Simon Van BooyTo 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 NazarianThere were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one’s.
- Gregory MaguireEventually, we all end up alone.
- Ally CarterIt 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. MaasHe 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 DurasThere are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.
- Toba BetaI learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.
- Julie MetzI 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 LoreForgiving, that’s what she is, and lonely. A person can forgive a lot if they need the company.
- Ali LandI often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
- Charles BukowskiWhen 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 KalantriIt’s never loneliness that nibbles away at a person’s insides, but not having room inside themselves to be comfortably alone.
- Rachel SontagYou can’t feel lonely if there’s no one else around.
- Yamaguchi KenjiI 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 ClineThe Internet is for lonely people. People should live.
- Charlton HestonI did not know I was lonely, she thought, until I was no longer alone.
- Katherine ArdenHanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be.
- Ellen J. BarrierAlways 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 JohnsonAll these people moving through life, all around me, and no one, not a single person, knows what I’m going through.
- Lee ThompsonWalking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
- Helen KellerLoneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
- Joss WhedonThe 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 FitzgeraldAll I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
- Tahereh MafiThis world that I live in is empty and cold. The loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
- Waylon JenningsI 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 CollinsTwo possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
- Arthur C. ClarkeIf a man cannot understand the beauty of life it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
- Criss JamiLife is full of misery loneliness and suffering—and it’s all over much too soon.
- Woody AllenMy imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. Le GuinWhen we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.
- Ronald Anthony CrossIf you’re lonely when you’re alone you’re in bad company.
- Jean-Paul SartreLoneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
- Germaine GreerWe live as we dream–alone….
- Joseph ConradIn 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 MaySome nights are made for torture or reflection or the savoring of loneliness.
- Poppy Z. BriteLet 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 PicoultLoneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
- May SartonThe most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother TeresaDepression on my left Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well.
- Elizabeth GilbertAnd if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
- L.M. MontgomeryThe best way to get approval is not to need it.
- Hugh MacLeodThe 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 FeehanIt 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 RilkeThe only way to survive is to admit you are on your own, learn to make your own decisions, and trust your judgement.
- Robert GreeneThere are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.
- Mandy HaleWhen a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
- Louis L’AmourIf I could always read I should never feel the want of company.
- George Gordon ByronIf we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange.
- Paulo CoelhoI have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life.
- SophoclesSolitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
- Anna NeagleWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
- George EliotNo one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
- Georges BernanosCinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
- Pedro AlmodovarWe are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.
- Jenova ChenLoneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
- Paul TillichTimes may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us – loneliness is one of them.
- Laurie GrahamMaybe 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 GayLook 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. LewisI 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 RoachSometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you’ll realize you have no one to turn to.
- SorayaWe’re happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time.
- Taylor SwiftYou’re not alone. I’m awake and I’ve been thinking of you.
- KygoI walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known.
- Green DayLonely, I’m so lonely, I have nobody to call my own.
- AkonDon’t wanna be all by myself anymore.
- Celine DionI’m not the girl you’re taking home. I keep dancing on my own.
- RobynThere is nothing more lonely or terrifying than feeling unheard.
- House of CardsCan anybody hear me or am I talking to myself?
- Simple PlanI think loneliness probably kills more people than cancer.
- A Simple FavorIf you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
- Anton ChekhovNothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
- Thomas HarrisThe eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
- Norman CousinsThe end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
- Edward GibbonNegative 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 RubinToo 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 LamaEverything 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 HarrisEverybody 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 HanksWho 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 ConradLoneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we have.
- Vivek MurthyThere’s a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night’s.
- Ed GormanI 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 SedarisWe live in such a lonely world because most days we wake up and decide to marry no one but ourselves.
- Christopher PoindexterBe a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
- Albert EinsteinLoneliness might be taking you towards an otherwise unreachable experience of reality.
- Olivia LaingThere is something immaculate about loneliness which only lonely people can understand.
- Munia KhanIt 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 BartonBy all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.
- George HerbertIt takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.
- Hans F. HansenI 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 WildeThe 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 NietzscheA life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.
- Henri NouwenCycling 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 ByrneOne thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it, and some people can’t.
- Kyrie IrvingBeing prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.
- Margaret ThatcherI’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 KarshThe thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
- Lorraine HansberryNo one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
- Gautama BuddhaThe first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation – at least sometimes.
- Fridtjof NansenWe 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 JayapalTo find yourself, think for yourself.
- SocratesSome 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 HaleLoneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.
- Rupi KaurYour 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 DavisLoneliness is cured by contact with yourself.
- Sven SchniedersLearn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more empowering or freeing than learning to like your own company.
- Mandy HaleLoneliness is a tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind.
- Alain de BottonTruth is, I’m generally happiest when it’s just me. It’s okay to be madly in love with yourself.
- Richelle E. GoodrichBeing alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.
- Richard YatesI restore myself when I’m alone.
- Marilyn MonroeA little loneliness goes a long way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant, and colorful you.
- Mandy HaleA lonely day is God’s way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
- Criss JamiSolitude 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 MannAccept 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. LawrenceYou cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
- Wayne W. DyerI’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.
- Audrey HepburnI am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
- Elizabeth GilbertMany people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
- Rollo MayMy imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.
- Patricia HighsmithWhen you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself.
- Fiona AppleThere are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.
- M.W PoetryVery suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn’t feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.
- Markus ZusakI feel so alone in this world filled with 7 billion souls.
- Marty Bisson MiloNo 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 ChamberlainDo not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls.
- Munia KhanAlone 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 StrayedI’ve never been the most important thing to anybody – not even myself.
- Ranata SuzukiBeing alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.
- Amelia EarhartIf love grew on trees, the forlorn would frequent the forest.
- Michael Bassey JohnsonBeing alone is more painful than getting hurt.
- Eiichiro OdaBeing human means having the capacity to be lonely; loneliness is part of what it means to be human.
- J. Ellsworth KalasWhen I feel lonely inside, nobody knows it. I never let on. I always cover it up. It eats me up.
- Mike GillespieBeing alone can be a happy, free time full of doing things you really want to do.
- P. K. HallinanLonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
- Lillian HellmanI get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.
- Mary KarrI can’t really have any friends. It’s sad, really. It’s lonely. But that’s how I am.
- Randy MossStormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.
- Maya AngelouAlways being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.
- Chris CampanioniIf you came to see the truth, the purity, it’s here inside a lonely heart.
- Michael JacksonLonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
- Abraham LincolnIf I don’t read, I get lonely. If I don’t write, I forget who I am.
- Jack DriscollThe writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
- Criss JamiLonely souls see beauty everywhere they go.
- Anoir Ou-ChadWe don’t have to be alone to feel lonely.
- Charles F. GlassmanWe’re only as lonely as we think we are.
- Bert McCoyYou can never feel lonely in nature!
- Avijeet DasThere is always an eternal mystery around the lonely souls!
- Mehmet Murat ildanWhat makes us lonely are the feelings that we never share with anyone.
- Bunny NaiduOnly the thirsty knows the real taste of water; only the lonely knows the real weight of emptiness!
- Mehmet Murat ildanA lonely heart always endure deep cuts and scratches.
- Qamar RafiqYou will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply!
- Mehmet Murat ildanSometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
- Vladimir PutinAlone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
- Twyla TharpThe voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.
- Khalil GibranExercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring.
- Barbara HollandWhen you’re a single parent, you’re often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup … It is mothering without a net.
- Amy DickinsonGenius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.
- Thomas Wentworth HigginsonThats 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 Paulsenlonely people are always up in the middle of the night.
- Nicole KraussI 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 UllmannI 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 LopezI never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.
- Julia ChildI 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 FitzgeraldAbsence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
- Charles M. SchulzWe’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 WallaceI’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 BukowskiLoneliness 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 MayThe act of speaking out makes you alone.
- Ravish KumarBeing alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
- Charles BukowskiDon’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone.
- Arnold RothsteinPeople are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
- Joseph F. NewtonThe trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
- Charlotte BronteBeing alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty – and oneness with a greater whole.
- Jude BijouI simply adore being alone – I find it a consuming thirst – and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
- May SartonAlone by herself she built the kingdom that she wanted.
- R.H. SinYou need to know how to be alone in order to know how to be together.
- Sherry TurkleWithout great solitude no serious work is possible.
- Pablo PicassoWhen you learn how to be alone you’ll discover the difference between alone and lonely.
- LJ VanierYou have to go ahead, even if no one goes with you.
- Lailah Gifty AkitaI never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David ThoreauIn 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 MorrisonYou will go with me everywhere. When I’m dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.
- Gordon LightfootI’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 KeithLonely is the night when you find yourself alone.
- Billy SquierWriting is an incredibly lonely job.
- R. A. SalvatoreSingle’s fun – you don’t have to check in with your girl, but it’s not easy. I do get lonely.
- Tommy LeeIt’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 MarcusPeople 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 MillerChristianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.
- Stevie SmithFor 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 ArnoldI’m an only child so am happy with my own company and I don’t really get lonely.
- Iain BanksWriting on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There’s no one there to help you.
- Lincoln ChildJust 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 OsbourneToo much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing.
- Lisa LoebIt is sad to forget. But it’s a lonely thing to be forgotten.
- V.E. SchwabIllness, I think, is holding unto an illusion. The loneliness while you’re holding onto it.
- Milena Michiko FlašarI’ve learned that there’s a difference between being alone and being lonely.
- Laura PohlWe want to be filled in many ways. Filled because empty is such a lonely feeling to live with.
- Nitya PrakashAll he wanted was someone who would let him be alone but never let him feel lonely.
- Nitya PrakashYou can never see me during my loneliest hours because I’m only lonely when you’re not around.
- Er GenA voice so beautiful it was almost lonely, calling out as if to someone who could not hear, on ship far away.
- Yasunari KawabataThat next week was one of the loneliest of my life. There seemed nothing left to look forward to.
- Julian BarnesHow sad, lonely, and empty to live a life without love?
- Ken PoirotI hate when I can’t control my loneliness.
- Leju ThomasIf you’re lonely, touch someone. Chances are, you’d end up travelling together.
- Jenim DibieI am lonely. I’ve been like that since I was young. But I think I am a person that needs to be lonely.
- Choi SeunghyunBeing a loner doesn’t make you lonely, but being lonely can make a loner.
- Eiro SilvigneYour loneliness can end at any moment because the world is full lonely souls!
- Mehmet Murat ildanMake friends with the path you are travelling on; then, you feel less lonely.
- Mehmet Murat ildanNot talking can make a guy pretty lonely.
- Benjamin Alire SáenzDarkness was my best friend and loneliness my soulmate.
- Luna MarymEveryone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies.
- MobyAbsolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
- Martha BeckAt 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 BeckAnyone would be lying if they said they didn’t get lonely at times.
- George ClooneyAs 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 LeoUnless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
- Mortimer AdlerI have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
- Tori AmosI 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 MacDowellI’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 FieldIt’s a very lonely place, being an addict.
- Kristen JohnstonI’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 DayI’m lonely and I’m still kind of searching for someone I can have a real connection with.
- MiguelIt’s a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers.
- Michael CheI 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 MarlingI have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are insecure.
- Kate ThorntonFor 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 DukeMusic was invented to confirm human loneliness.
- Lawrence DurrellIf 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 GarlandSuccess is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with, you’re just gonna end up lonely.
- Selena GomezI know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That’s not me at all.
- Daphne GuinnessMusic was my oxygen. It’s what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.
- Corey HartI’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 JonesOn stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
- Janis JoplinThe 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 LindberghNo 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 MurrayWe’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 MurrayOnly the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
- Roy OrbisonI’m on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.
- Katy PerryI 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 PlantYes, 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 RollinsIt’s no fun being lonely.
- Maurice SendakFor 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 SheenI’ve shut myself inside these walls, and I’m going to be a very lonely old lady if I’m not careful.
- Danielle SteelI like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
- Paul TherouxFor 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 WalkerEven if you’re independent, I think you get lonely.
- Mia WasikowskaWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
- Tennessee WilliamsI always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
- Curtis SittenfeldThe self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.
- Steve MartinWhen you’re feeling lonely and no one is around Remember to look inside yourself and a best friend will be found.
- Stephen CosgroveThere 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 MontgomeryTo know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.
- Peter CareyHe 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 SchreiberShe 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 FitchThat’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.
- Rainer Maria RilkeI think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
- Carson McCullersIf anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interest.
- Tom PerrottaI am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.
- Paul BaribeauEnvy 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 SmithI 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 ChapmanIt is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.
- Charles R. SwindollLove and loneliness, they are both coincidences.
- M.F. MoonzajerThe world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.
- Kōbō AbeEveryone’s searching for someone to end the pain of loneliness. Even the darkest of souls wants a shot at redemption.
- Katherine McIntyreChildren are no antidote to loneliness.
- Erica JongDays feels like years when you’re alone.
- Auliq IceLoneliness is a shadow of death
- Bangambiki HabyarimanaI have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it.
- Charlotte ErikssonThe only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.
- Orhan PamukThinking in loneliness and speaking in public are the two things leaders are masters at.
- VikrmnIgnore the loneliness, enjoy your presence.
- M.F. Moonzajer