150+ Emotional Loneliness Quotes to Match Your Mood

Loneliness quotes can help you find words for the way you’re feeling.

More than that, they can reassure you that how you’re feeling is normal – making you feel less alone in the process.

And, above all, they can provide inspiration and hope in dark, lonely moments.

Whatever you need or want them for, I hope the 150+ quotes about loneliness in this post will help.

Sad Loneliness Quotes

“Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you’ll realize you have no one to turn to.” – Soraya“
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
“There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.” – Alexander Theroux
“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
“Feeling lonely is fine. Staying this way forever is not.” – Maxime Lagacé
“She was lonely and she never knew that this loneliness had made her sour and cross towards others.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Weekends, End of the month, your birthday, and Valentine’s Day will remind you how single and how lonely you are.” – De philosopher DJ Kyos
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” – Lois Lowry
“Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.” – Pauline Phillips
“The loneliest people are the kindest. They’re the ones who give the world their smiles, even though they cry in their bedrooms.” – Charles Bukowski
“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.” – Paulo Coelho
“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.” – Haruki Murakami
“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.” – Paulo Coelho
“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.” – Charlotte Brontë
“There’s just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.” – Catherine Reitman
“This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.” – Waylon Jennings
“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.” – Albert Schweitzer
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.” – Anaïs Nin
“Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.” – Joss Whedon
“To be so lonely you told yourself you liked to be this way & almost believed it was true.” – Natalie Wee
“Loneliness is the feeling of being alone even when you’re surrounded by people.” – Wayne Dyer
“If one’s different one’s bound to be lonely.” – Aldous Huxley
“Every single human being who is alive has felt this kind of pain, hopelessness, and loneliness at one time or another. We are all connected through this shared pain and struggle.” – Leo Babauta
“I’m not much but I’m all I have.” – Philip K. Dick
“There’s nothing abnormal about loneliness.” – Paula Stokes

Inspirational Quotes About Loneliness

“Loneliness is not an emotion, it’s a state of mind.” – Robin Sharma
“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.” – Norman Cousins
“Loneliness is a tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind.” – Alain de Botton
“Too much expectation can only lead to frustration.” – Mouloud Benzadi
“I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.” – Betty Smith
“Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us ‒ loneliness is one of them.” – Laurie Graham
“There is something immaculate about loneliness which only lonely people can understand.” – Munia Khan
“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” – Pearl S. Buck
“The only thing keeping you from being happy is the belief that you are alone.” – Anna Draper
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.” – Mortimer Adle
“Think of a lonely man living in a lonely house in the middle of nowhere! If that man doesn’t feel lonely then loneliness is no longer a valid adjective for him!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“The more specific you are about a very general feeling of loneliness is actually how you connect with people.” – Phoebe Bridgers
“We feel alone, and in this, we are connected.” – Leo Babauta
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” – Pearl Buck
“Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.” – Guillermo Maldonado
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.” – Henrik Ibsen
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
“To forget the self is to remember that we don’t exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe.” – Steve Hagen
“Loneliness is the mark upon us, the original cut that calls us to seek the source of meaning-filled living and sate our deepest spiritual needs.” – Patricia J.
“The effect of loneliness is to devalue those individual resources which make up your personality.” – Tony Lake
“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
“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.” – Erma Bombeck

Quotes on Loneliness and Overcoming It

“Loneliness is a part of life. But it’s also an opportunity for growth.” – Mandy Hale
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” – Dag Hammarskjold
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” – Kurt Vonnegut
“It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.” – Joel Osteen
“When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.” – Conor Oberst
“We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.” – Gail Honeyman
“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
“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
“If you are ever sad and think that life is hard, remember that you are not alone.” – Abbas Kazerooni
“A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” – Mandy Hale
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Being alone and actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.” – Kourtney Kardashian
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
“You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.” – Amit Ray
“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” – Ellen Burstyn
“I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it’s good for me…” – Louisa May Alcott
“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
“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.” – Mitch Albom
“It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.” – Marilyn Monroe
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” – Aldous Huxley
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception.” – Janet Fitch
“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
“When you are evolving to your higher self, the road seems lonely. But you’re simply shedding energies that no longer match the frequency of your destiny.” – Unknown
“If you are afraid of being lonely don’t try to be right.” – Jules Renard

Inspirational Quotes About Feeling Alone

“If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.” – Andy Rooney
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” – Maya Angelou
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” – Orson Welles
“Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.” – Robert Tew
“As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.” – Sienna Miller
“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
“Sometimes, it’s better to be alone. No one can hurt you!” – Unknown
“By all means use sometimes to be alone, Salute thyself; see what the soul doth wear.” – George Herbert
“Sometimes, you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.” – Unknown
“Lonely souls see beauty everywhere they go.” – Anoir Ou-Chad
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God.” – Anne Frank
“Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.” – Unknown
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins
“It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.” – Jiddhe Krishnamurti
“Ordinary men hate solitude. But the master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.” – Lao Tzu
“It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.” – George Washington
“Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.” – Naval Ravikant
“When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death—ourselves.” – Eda J. LeShan
“Even in the loneliest moments I have been there for myself.” – Sanober Khan
“I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition by necessity if not by nature.” – Rachel Hartman
“Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.” – Marty Rubin
“I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, and death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.” – Martha Gellhor
“Kill the loneliness by being with yourself all alone.” – Vikrmn Corpkshetra
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” – Gautama Buddha
“Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.” – Stacy Westfall

Feeling Lonely Quotes Full of Wisdom

“It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” – Douglas Coupland
“Loneliness is the space between you and the people you want to be close to.” – Alain de Botton
“When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.” – Gertrude Stein
“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
“A lonely heart always endures deep cuts and scratches.” – Qamar Rafiq
“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.” – Honoré de Balzac
“Loneliness is the price we pay for independence.” – Audre Lorde
“Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.” – Charles Bukowski
“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.” – Tom Wolfe
“Loneliness is the most common human experience, yet the least spoken about.” – Meghan Daum
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It’s part of the human experience, and in a way brings us closer to all people.” – Juliette Fay
“I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They’re just not around at the moment.” – Cynthia Hand
“We come into this world alone, and we leave the same way.” – Jean Grey
“When the world makes me feel like I am alone, love reminds me otherwise.” – Steve Maraboli
“I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still.” – Steve Goodier
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.” – Joshua Slocum
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” – John Joseph Powell
“And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.” – L.M. Montgomery
“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
“No one is ever alone and silence does not equate defeat.” – Joan Ambu
“An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.” – Brian W. Aldiss

Famous Being Alone Quotes

“There is nothing more lonely or terrifying than feeling unheard.” – House of Cards
“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.” – George R.R. Martin
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” – Mother Teresa
“They judge me before they even know me. That’s why I’m better off alone.” – Shrek
“When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.” – Fiona Apple
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.” – Woody Allen
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” – Mother Teresa
“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
“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
“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
“Loneliness comes with life.” – Whitney Houston
“The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” – Justin Timberlake
“In utter loneliness, a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.” – John Steinbeck
“Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.” – Liv Ullmann
“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
“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.” – Audrey Hepburn
“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 who make you feel all alone.” – Robin Williams
“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.” – Albert Einstein
“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” – Mark Twain
“I have to be alone very often. 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
“Don’t wanna be all by myself anymore.” – Celine Dion
“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
“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
“Lonely, I’m so lonely, I have nobody to call my own.” – Akon
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; Be alone – that is when ideas are born.” – Nikola Tesla
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from?” – The Beatles
“If you really want peace on earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with and then spread.” – Osho

Remember These Feeling Alone Quotes in Tough Times

Loneliness quotes can be insightful, emotive, and reassuring.

They can shed light on how you feel, highlight how other people have similar feelings, and offer a glimmer or hope and positivity in tough times.

Whether you were looking for quotes about loneliness for those reasons or totally different ones, I hope this list was useful!

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