Looking for emotional quotes about feeling lonely? We have rounded up the best collection of loneliness quotes, sayings, captions, status, and one-liners, (with images and pictures) that you will relate to when you are sad and alone.
Loneliness is something many people feel at some point in their lives. It’s that feeling of being alone, even when surrounded by others.
Loneliness Vs. Feeling alone, these two terms are often used interchangeably but both these terms are different.
Being alone is actually just a state; it means that you are not with other people. So you might feel lonely when you’re struggling with a breakup, or divorce, whether you’re physically alone or not.
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Loneliness causes people to feel ignored, worthless, empty, alone, and unwanted. People who are lonely often crave human contact, but their state of mind makes it more difficult to form connections with other people.
But being lonely can have positive effects on your mood when you use your alone time to reflect on your thoughts. Distancing yourself from others for a while will help you focus better and get mental clarity in solitude.
Don’t forget to check out our collection of feeling down quotes and feeling blue quotes that you can relate to.
Sad Loneliness Quotes To Express Yourself
- “Loneliness breaks the spirit.” – Proverb
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“Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.” – Unknown
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“There’s nothing abnormal about loneliness.” – Paula Stokes
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“Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.” – Joss Whedon
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“Loneliness is emptiness begging to be filled.” – Christy Ann Martine
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“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If you are afraid of being lonely don’t try to be right.” – Jules Renard
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“The irony of loneliness is we all feel it at the same time.” – Rupi Kaur
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“Loneliness is an emotion and being alone can be a choice.” – Unknown
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“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.” – Haruki Murakami
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“Lonely is not being alone, it’s the feeling that no one cares.” – Unknown
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“I am lonely in places I didn’t even know existed inside me.” – Nikita Gill
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“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” – May Sarton
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“My silence spoke a thousand words but you never heard them.” – Unknown
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“I think loneliness probably kills more people than cancer.” — A Simple Favor
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“There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.” — Unknown
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“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn’t go away.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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“It’s okay to be alone till you find someone better than your solitude.” — Unknown
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“It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Lonely Quotes When You Feel Like No One Gets You
- “So not confuse solitude with loneliness. One builds and the other destroys.” – Unknown
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“That feeling when you’re not necessarily sad, but you just feel really empty.”― Unknown
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“You’ll end up living a lonely life if you’re waiting around for perfect.”― Samantha Young
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“Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.” – Guillermo Maldonado
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“The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.” –Mother Teresa
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“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” – Mother Teresa
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“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” — Michel de Montaigne
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“We sometimes think we want to disappear, but all we really want is to be found.” – Unknown
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“The person who tries to keep everyone happy often ends up feeling the loneliest.”― Unknown
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“The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.”― Mary Balogh
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“Loneliness is a part of our life. It teaches us that we are not complete in ourselves.” ― David Runcorn
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“The wind breathes lonely, longing to be seen. Sometimes, the soul has days like these.” ― Unknown
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“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.” ― Deb Caletti
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“I can’t hold my tears now I know I’m broken emotionally and now I can’t even hide it.” ― Unknown
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“A broken relationship can make you feel more lonely than when you were single.” – Unknown
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“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.” – Thomas Wolfe
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“You can’t be strong all the time. Sometimes you just need to be alone and let your tears out.” – Unknown
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“We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.” — Jenova Chen
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“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” — Paul Tillich
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“Loneliness is not caused by others, it is when your mind tells you that nobody cares about you.” — Unknown
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Best Loneliness Quotes When You Feel Isolated
- “My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.” ― Khalil Gibran
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“Being lonely is not being alone, you can be in a big crowd of people and still feel lonely despite it.” – Unknown
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“Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed. People may still feel lonely even among the crowd.”― Toba Beta
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“Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you’ll realize you have no one to turn to.” —Soraya
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“There are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.”- M.W Poetry
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“It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.” – Joel Osteen
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“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins
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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ― Maya Angelou
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“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.” ― Unknown
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“Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us – loneliness is one of them.” — Laurie Graham
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“Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.”― Simon Van Booy
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“It feels like everyone else is moving on with their lives while I am stuck here in this hole that I can’t climb out of.” ― Unknown
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“Loneliness is a fire, which I hold close to my skin, to see how much pain I can stand, before running to the water.” ― Atticus
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“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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“I’ve noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”― Paulo Coelho
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“A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” — Mandy Hale
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“Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.” – Robert Tew
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“Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.” – Mandy Hale
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“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.” ― Hugh MacLeod
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“You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.” ― Darren Shan
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“Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.”― John Joseph Powell
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“You never realize how lonely you are until it’s the end of the day and you got a bunch of things to talk about and no one to talk to.” – Unknown
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“It takes a strong person to remain single in a world that is accustomed to settling with anything just to say they have something.”- Anonymous
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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
- “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
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“Loneliness is not just a feeling of being alone, it’s fear, depression, inferiority, it’s a collection of negative emotions building up a massive wall around you.” ― Unknown
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“The most tragic fact about loneliness is that unlike sicknesses and diseases, there’s really no cure for this experience of feeling rejection, of being an outcast.” – Unknown
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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
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“Be willing to let people in because the room called loneliness is one that can only open from the inside, if you don’t grab the doorknob, the door will forever stay shut.” – Unknown
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“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
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“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
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“And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness?” – Charles Bukowski
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“The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they did.” – Jellal Fernandes
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“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
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“Loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.” — Marilyn French
Quotes About Feeling Alone
- Know your worth, even if it gets lonely. – Unknown
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- “If one’s different one’s bound to be lonely.” – Aldous Huxley
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“You can’t feel lonely if there’s no one else around.” – Yamaguchi Kenji
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“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.” – Paul Tillich
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“I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.”― Sylvia Plath
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“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” —Pearl Buck
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“If you want to miss your crown follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself. – Israelmore Ayivor
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“If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.” – Sharon Salzberg
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“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
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“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.” – Daniel Keyes
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“Never search your happiness in others, it will make you feel alone. Search it in yourself, you will feel happy even when you are left alone.” – Unknown
- “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
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“There is nothing lonelier than sitting in the same room with someone and having absolutely nothing to talk about. The lack of affection can be tolerated but to feel invisible is well painful.” – Unknown
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“If you are feeling lonely know that you’ll always have: books to nurture your mind, hands to create your mind, wind to calm your soul, breathes to soothe your nerves, nature to soak your worries away, stars to decorate your dreams.” – Emma Xu
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“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
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“It’s never loneliness that nibbles away at a person’s insides, but not having room inside themselves to be comfortably alone.”― Rachel Sontag
Depressed Lonely Quotes That Are Emotional
Loneliness is painful and heart breaking. A prolonged feeling of loneliness it can lead to mental health issues, such as depression where you feel empty, and worthless.
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You miss the feeling of being loved, valued and you feel you have no one to turn to. With help of like-minded people and friends who like to listen to you, you can cope with loneliness and even change our state of mind.
- “Leave my loneliness unbroken.” — Edgar Allan Poe
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“Even though we are together I still feel alone.” — Unknown
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“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” — George Eliot
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“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” — Unknown
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“No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.” — Georges Bernanos
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“Sometimes it’s better to be alone no one can hurt you that way.”– Tinku Razoria
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“But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.” — Unknown
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“Emotionally, I’m in such a bad place that it makes me physically sick.” — Unknown
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“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.” – Albert Schweitzer
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“She didn’t know, who would leave or stay. So she pushed them all away.” – Unknown
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“All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.” – Jean de La Bruyère
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“A part of me died that day and the only person – there at the funeral, was me.”― Unknown
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“There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one’s.”― Gregory Maguire
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“It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.” – Marilyn Monroe
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“All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.” ― Blaise Pascal
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“It’s just never been in me to avoid loneliness with another and try to call it love.”― Unknown
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“Some nights are made for torture or reflection or the savoring of loneliness.” –Poppy Z. Brite
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“It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know.” ― David Foster Wallace
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“I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.”― Julie Metz
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“You break your own heart by giving yourself hope when you already know it is over.” ― Unknown
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“Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can’t help loving others.” ~Rin Sohma”― Natsuki Takaya
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“This world that I live in is empty and cold. The loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.” –Waylon Jennings
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“It hurts to be broken, but it hurts more when you’re still in love with the person who broke you.” ― Unknown
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“In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”― Carl Sagan
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“Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you’ll realize you have no one to turn to.”― Soraya
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“I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.” – Henry Rollins
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“Living on a planet filled with people it is a tragedy that any one of us could ever feel this alone.” – Chisty Ann Martine
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“Sometimes all you can do is smile. Move on with your day, hold back the tears and pretend you’re okay.” – Unknown
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“Choose your wife carefully. Being single and feeling lonely is better than being married and feeling lonely.” – Unknown
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“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for great enough to die for.” – Dag Hammarskjold
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“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.” – Anais Nin
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“All these people moving through life, all around me, and no one, not a single person, knows what I’m going through.”― Lee Thompson
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“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
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“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
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“Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.” –Germaine Greer
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“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
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“Just because her eyes don’t tear doesn’t mean her heart doesn’t cry. And just because she comes off strong, doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong.” — Unknown
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“The worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.”― Shyza Chaudhry
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“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
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“When I was young my father used to say, “not everyone who is nice to your face has your best interest at heart.” I understood that a little bit too late.” — Unknown
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“There’s a limit to how strong you can be, everyone breaks when it comes to isolation because no one is stronger than loneliness, it breaks you beyond repair.” – Unknown
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“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
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“Believe me, I know what it’s like to feel all alone… The worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality.” – Dan Brown
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“Trying to fill your loneliness by looking for a companion or anything outside is not going to work. Know that you are on this planet to give something and then pack up and leave.” — Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sad Quotes About Being Lonely
Loneliness is a universal human emotion that everyone from a child to an adult can experience. It’s a quite complex emotion and unique to each individual.
There are different reasons why a person may feel lonely. An elderly man can feel lonely in life after the death of his wife, a kid may feel lonely at school as he does not have friends, or someone can feel lonely because he/she has no one to love.
Don’t forget to check out our collection of Feeling Empty Quotes and sad quotes that you can relate to.
- “I’m not much but I’m all I have.” ― Philip K Dick
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“I value love because I have been lonely.” ― Unknown
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“Lonely was much better than alone.” –Toni Morrison
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“All great and precious things are lonely.” ― John Steinbeck
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“Being alone is good but being lonely is the worst.” ― Unknown
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“When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.” – Conor Oberst
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“Loneliness can make you develop into a strong person.” – Unknown
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“I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life.”― Sophocles
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“If you smile when you are alone then you really mean it.” – Andy Rooney
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“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” – Unknown
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“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.” – Henrik Ibsen
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“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” – George Washington
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“I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it’s good for me…”― Louisa May Alcott
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“Even in the loneliest moments I have been there for myself.” – Sanober Khan
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“My inspirations are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.” – Enrique Iglesias
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“There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.”― Toba Beta
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“When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.” ― Louis L’Amour
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“Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.” – Martha Beck
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“Sometimes you have to stand alone. Just to make sure you still can.” – Anonymous
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“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.” ― Mitch Albom
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“Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.” ― Frankenstein
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“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.” – Laurence Sterne
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“I did not know I was lonely, she thought, until I was no longer alone.”― Katherine Arden
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“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.” – Erma Bombeck
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“We’ve got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.”― Daphne du Maurier
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“Do not think of loneliness as a disease as sometimes it can cure most of the diseases.” – Unknown
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“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”― Charles Bukowski
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“Sometimes, you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.” – Anonymous
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“Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.” – Anonymous
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“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Unknown
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“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” – Tahereh Mafi
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“The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” – Justin Timberlake
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“Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more freeing and empowering than learning to like your own company.” – Unknown
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“Feeling lonely sometimes is a good thing. It takes us appreciate the care and kindness we receive from our loved ones.” – Unknown
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“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.” – Anonymous
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“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
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“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
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“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
Understanding the nature of loneliness and the mental state of the person going through it is very important. It’s a phase and stage of life where one feels so lonely that it’s very difficult to suffer and explain the pain in words.
There are a lot of reasons and symptoms that can be identified. Empathize and share the pain to make someone’s life better.
Don’t forget to check out feeling like a burden and when things fall apart quotes if you are heartbroken.
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