Top 100 Lonely Loneliness Quotes
#1. If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.
Sherry Turkle
#2. It is said that life is too short, and that's quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.
Jonathan Hull
#3. It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.
Vera Caspary
#4. 29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.
James C. Dobson
#5. It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is.
Nanamoli Thera
#6. All people are lonely in some ways. Some people are lonely in all ways.
"Now, Voyager" - Movie, 1942.
Casey Robinson
#7. "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."
Samuel Johnson
#8. Maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.
Babs Deal
#9. Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me
to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song.
Sanober Khan
#10. It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#11. Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
John Powell
#12. Loneliness can't be seen. It's a worse feeling that can only be felt, We experience a lots of feeling in our life but loneliness is such a feeling that kills us from inside yet we can't help it. We only see our self being destroyed day by day,yet nothing to do.
Debolina Bhawal
#13. Sometimes I sit and stare out at the people walking by, wondering if they've felt as I've felt, trapped, alone, but guiltily content in the knowledge that I will never know another's thoughts, and therefore can feel special due to my unique loneliness.
Moryah DeMott
#14. There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.
Ashay Abbhi
#15. Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
Lillian Hellman
#16. One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.
Dan Pearce
#17. People are so lonely, they spend their birthdays on the Internet, thanking people for wishing them a happy birthday, people who only know it's their birthday because Facebook told them.
Caroline Kepnes
#18. 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
#19. He's lonely and afraid, even if he's in a trance and doesn't realize it. One can't hide loneliness like that.
A.G. Howard
#20. I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I'm never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.
Susan Cain
#21. I think it must be lonely to be God.
Nobody loves a master. No.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#22. 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
#23. Life on the farm had fed his soul since he was a child. he was ever grateful to Gott for giving him a chance to work the land and live by the seasons. It was a good life...but a lonely one for a man his age, a man too old to be living with his family.
Rosalind Lauer
#24. Every avalanche was once a lonely snowflake, every flood was once an aching raindrop.
Jenim Dibie
#26. You'll end up living a lonely life if you're waiting around for perfect.
Samantha Young
#27. El, you are telling me to run away with a man to become his mistress."
"I am telling you to be happy. Even if it lasts only a little while. We must snatch what we can when we have the chance. Life is so very lonely when we don't.
Jennifer Ashley
#28. And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
William Butler Yeats
#29. You are a strange people. So loving, yet so lonely, inside. I would lie awake at night and gaze up at the dark blue sky, and ache to feel your loneliness - even though I was always there. I was always there, Mae.
Charlotte Stein
#30. Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?
Grace Metalious
#31. I am lonely here sometimes. I'm like the gate, swinging in the breeze when I long for someone to just secure the latch and stop me from flailing about
Sarah Jio
#33. But for the first time, Boaz couldn't think of a single word to describe this kind of loneliness, so scary and real it required an entirely different language, new and strange and yet to be invented
Molly Antopol
#34. I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.
Lone Alaskan Gypsy
#35. When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
Banana Yoshimoto
#36. This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
Waylon Jennings
#37. My fear of standing alone often pressures me to stand with a rather unsavory group that embraces a rather unsettling belief system which leaves me wondering why I left the promises of God for the company of people.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.
Ronald Anthony Cross
#39. My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
William Sharp
#40. 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
#41. I am never lonely when I am praying, for this brings me into companionship with the greatest friend of all - Jesus Christ. He said, "I call you not servants; ... but ... friends" [John 15:15 KJV].
Billy Graham
#42. Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
Twyla Tharp
#43. Until you experience real loneliness, you shall never know what real loneliness is. So many people feel miserable and lonely just because they ignore their inner man, create a gap between themselves and their inner man, and neglect their true self!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#44. Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.
Jean Webster
#45. Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.
Mason Cooley
#46. My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else.
Ben Marcus
#47. It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.
Mizu Sahara
#48. Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.
John Milton
#49. If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
Jules Renard
#50. I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#51. It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.
Jackson Pearce
#52. In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne.
Michael Leunig
#53. I have all these things that I want to say to her, like... Like how I can tell she's a lonely person, even if other people can't. Cause I know what it feels like to be lost and lonely and invisible.
Richard Ayoade
#54. Until then we're going to keep making memories like this, moments when we're the only two people in the whole world. And when we get scared or lonely or confused, we'll pull out these memories and wrap them around us and they'll make us feel safe. And strong.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#55. Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.
Stevie Smith
#56. But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.
Yiyun Li
#57. A city full of eight million people. It was all rather lonely sometimes.
Kelly Moran
#58. Dark hair on a white pillow, an ache inside, his face a reflection in her eye.
Donna Lynn Hope
#59. And the bell jangled, the driver started. The bus whirled off, to the last stop, the lonely room, the lonely night.
Brian Moore
#60. She slammed the door and
was gone.
I looked at the closed door
and at the doorknob
and strangely
I didn't feel
alone.
Charles Bukowski
#61. there is a difference between
loneliness and solitude,
one will empty you and
one will fill you.
you have the power to choose.
AVA.
#63. She would never forget how his soul was lonely as the moon they'd met under, and how, for several brief moments, she'd been able to chase the loneliness away.
Katherine McIntyre
#64. I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.
Jackie Kay
#66. The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?
Paul Celan
#67. The words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language ... those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.
Donald Miller
#68. There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.
Steve V. Cypert
#69. But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to ...
Sanhita Baruah
#70. Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.
Arthur Symons
#71. Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
Haruki Murakami
#72. Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.
Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.
Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#73. Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.
Melina Marchetta
#74. I'd like to walk there again. It was so lonely - a nice kind of loneliness, and all grass and clover and soft sea air.
C.S. Lewis
#75. She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
Betty Smith
#76. In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day will come when the memory of my present joy will give me the strength to keep giving even when loneliness gnaws at my heart.
Henri Nouwen
#77. Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.
Sakyong Mipham
#78. People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.
Tim Schafer
#79. In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. Photography is a very lonely medium. There's a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that's why I'm a photographer.
Alec Soth
#81. I now understood that real secrets were lonely. They planted themselves inside of you and expanded, until you felt like that was all you were-a lonely little secret, isolated in your experiences.
Yvonne Woon
#82. When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives; we also experience less of a soothing uplift from the positives.
John T. Cacioppo
#83. I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people lonely ... It's difficult to remember that your loneliness is not really about you and everyone has it.
Jessa Crispin
#85. If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.
Joyce Rachelle
#86. Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an attendant lady of respectable appearance who would help him reduce the guilt and loneliness of this most lonely act of love.
Gay Talese
#87. Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Vicki Baum
#88. I wish I were not quite so lonely - and so poor. And yet I love both my loneliness and my poverty. The former makes me appreciate the companionship of the wind and rain, while the latter preserves my liver and prevents me wasting time in dancing attendance upon women.
Algernon Blackwood
#89. Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and howling for her lost lunatic offer.
Patrick McGrath
#90. I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
Khalil Gibran
#91. A lot of people have said that the main thread in my work is loneliness or just wanting to create a world with someone who doesn't really have much in their life, so maybe I'm looking for someone who's lonely and wants to try to create something with me as a subject for my videos.
Laurel Nakadate
#94. 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
#95. 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.
L.M. Montgomery
#96. I am never lonely when I am sharing [Christ] with others. There is a great exhilaration in talking to others about [Him].
Billy Graham
#97. Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.
William Wordsworth
#99. Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love.
Kay Arthur
#100. Don't panic, you are never alone in building up your dreams. The storehouse of your success was built by the very supreme father who created it for you.
Israelmore Ayivor
