Top 100 Quotes About Being Lonely
#1. It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.
Neal Shusterman
#2. Reading means never being bored and never being lonely. My books are my friends; they always provide me with a place to go.
Satinder Bhatti
#3. Single and independent are words women use to make themselves feel better about being lonely and overwhelmed.
Lexi Ryan
#4. And being alone and being lonely were two different things but they felt exactly the same: they felt horrible.
Sarra Manning
#5. He wasn't antisocial - he always had friends, and everybody liked him - but he could go off and entertain himself for hours. He didn't seem to need toys or friends. He could be alone without being lonely.
Carine McCandless
#6. Being lonely because of Allah is another kind of a beauty
Felix Siauw
#7. I feel like the men who end up in my videos, their biggest crime is being lonely. They're not violent, they're not scary people, they're just men who keep to themselves and have a hard time being social.
Laurel Nakadate
#8. The fact is, there's a difference between being alone and being lonely; I may not of been completely alone in life, but I was definitely lonely.
Brent Hartinger
#9. My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else.
Ben Marcus
#10. If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
Jules Renard
#11. Being free always involves being lonely.
Kobo Abe
#12. Francie of course became an outsider shunned by all because of her stench. But she had grown accostumed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and being considered different. She did not suffer to much.
Betty Smith
#13. The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.
Gretchen Rubin
#14. The prospect of being lonely but right - dedicating your life to something that no one else believes in - is already hard. The prospect of being lonely and wrong can be unbearable.
Peter Thiel
#15. We unify. We include."
"But humans like being individuals."
"We know," Rue said. He pushes off the ground with his foot, starting the swing into a slow sway. "We didn't understand-individuals like being lonely."
"It's not lonely." Hopefully he can't tell I'm lying.
Josin L. McQuein
#16. I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.
Paul Baribeau
#17. There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#18. 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
#19. The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?
Christine Feehan
#20. There is a lot of pain in being lonely, but a lot of beauty in being alone.
Steven Aitchison
#21. I've learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I'm alone and I've never been so content.
Melinda Salisbury
#22. When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
D.H. Lawrence
#23. What is needed is that you become aware of your aloneness, which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because it is your freedom from the crowd, from the other. It is your freedom from the fear of being lonely.
Osho
#24. I look for a thematic idea running through my movies and I see that it's the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize that all my life I've been an outsider, and above all, being lonely but never realizing it.
Martin Scorsese
#26. My mom once told me, back when I was a kid, that I would never understand girls unless I understood the fear of being lonely and alone. She said no girl would ever understand boys unless she understood the fear of being dishonored and defeated.
John C. Wright
#27. Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
Carl Sandburg
#28. You're great but you're not there when I go to bed at night or get up in the morning. You don't make me a cup of tea after a hard day at work, or rub my back in the bath. I'm sick of being lonely. Is that so wrong?
Eleanor Prescott
#29. He returned my smile with a half grin. So what do you blog about? Knitting? Puzzles? Being lonely?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#30. Women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities ... How long a time it took me after my divorce to understand that being alone is not the same as being lonely.
Alice Steinbach
#31. Being lonely does not mean that we are abnormal, love-starved, oversexed, or alienated. Perhaps all it means is that we are incurably human and sensitive to the fact that God made us for an ecstatic togetherness in a body with divine love and with all other persons of sincere will.
Ronald Rolheiser
#32. I know why you picked her," Frank says, still sitting on the grass. "She's like you, sort of. A writer. Unhappy. Wishing she had someone who understood her. That's what killed her- being lonely.
Albert Borris
#34. I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one ... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
Mother Teresa
#35. Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.
Steve Goodier
#36. I'm so tired of being lonely,she thought. In so tired of never going out, of never being with a boy,off never having a boy care about me.
R.L. Stine
#37. It's because she doesn't love being lonely. When a girl loses her virginity, though, it may hurt, but it's real. It might be the realest, most private thing you could ever see in another person. You wonder who she'll be in that moment, when you finally get past all the pretend.
Joe Hill
#39. It's better being lonely than having friends that secretly hate you.
Nina Ardianti
#40. 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
#41. When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.
Kunal Nayyar
#42. One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.
Matt Haig
#43. To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.
Peter Carey
#44. ... I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely.
Stephenie Meyer
#45. If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.
Michael Josephson
#46. One can be alone without being lonely. And lonely without being alone. (Rosemary)
Lisa Kleypas
#47. It is better to wake up alone, knowing you are alone, than to wake up with someone, still being lonely.
Liv Ullmann
#48. She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.
Candace Bushnell
#49. The central drama of my life is about being a fraud, alas. That's a complete lie, really; the central drama of my life is actually about being lonely, and staying thin, but fraudulence gets a fair amount of play.
David Rakoff
#50. You have to get very comfortable with the idea of being lonely. For all of human history, we've always run away from being lonely and now there are even more distractions. But that's the thing - if you're going to make the decision to rebel against your tribe, you're going to get very lonely.
Sherman Alexie
#51. There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?
Alan Bradley
#52. It's a terrible feeling being lonely.
Rita Ora
#53. The worst feeling in life is not being lonely; it's being forgotten by the one person you could never forget.
Rahul Rawat
#54. I have continued to come here for that kind of aloneness, so very different from being lonely with someone.
Shirley Rousseau Murphy
#55. This is what's so terrifying about being lonely: the instinctive sense that it is literally repulsive, inhibiting contact at just the moment contact is most required.
Olivia Laing
#56. Being alone and being lonely are two different things.
Ai Yazawa
#57. The thing is, being lonely is like walking in the cold without a coat. It's uncomfortable, but eventually you go numb. Once you get used to not being lonely, though, the shock of going back is like having your down comforter yanked off at six o'clock on a Minnesota December morning.
Maggie Hall
#58. I need you to protect me from being lonely. Don't fight for me. Be with me.That's what I need.-Bianca to Lucas
Claudia Gray
#60. Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.
John Spence
#61. There's a thing about being alone and there's a thing about being lonely, and they're two different things.
Randall Munroe
#62. Being lonely and loving your own company are two very different things. Don't ever get them mixed up.
Zaeema J. Hussain
#63. When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.
Dana Reeve
#64. Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.
Corey Hart
#65. I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.
Oliver
#66. Didn't know one another's names or ages or reasons for being there, and that was fine, because silence isn't the same when it's shared. Its sad and lonely sides are shunted off.
Dinaw Mengestu
#67. When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out."
Jenna Marbles
#68. I do want someone, need someone. You're right. And, when I'm with you, I feel like I'm a better person. I feel happier. Less alone, less lonely. But it's not as simple as that, is it? Being with someone?
Naomi Campbell
#69. When love is lonely, its because you have not found the love of your love. Even though you are being love.
Janet Wilson
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#73. You could be married and bored or single and lonely. Ain't no happiness nowhere.
Chris Rock
#75. Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.
John Bytheway
#76. Whenever I overhear someone remark how much I prefer being on my own, it makes me feel desperately lonely. It's as if they're deliberately giving me the cold-shoulder treatment.
Naoki Higashida
#77. To people who think I'm happy, just look again; the scars of my past will lead you to a place no one knows, a place no other person can imagine, a place that echoes with the desolate cries of a lonely heart, a place where I'm being stabbed to death hundreds of times.
Manoj Kumar Duppala
#78. Really? We are being herded on a bus to drive across town to an all-boy academy where we disembark and join our lonely counterparts on a dance floor. Sounds like a scorecard situation to me.
Adriana Trigiani
#79. This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
Waylon Jennings
#80. When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.
Ronald Anthony Cross
#81. If people treat you like shit, you treat them like shit right back. They won't like it, but they'll respect it. It's a lonely road. Although, truth be told, I enjoyed being alone. Life was much clearer.
Tijan
#82. I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
Warsan Shire
#83. Without family, Tover had spent many birthdays in lonely places, but being sold by his lover to a bunch of unscrupulous pirates definitely won the prize as being the worst birthday present ever received.
Astrid Amara
#84. It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.
Henry Louis Gates
#85. Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.
Sebastian Faulks
#86. I'm very comfortable being right," she admitted.
"We all are. But sometimes it's a lonely place.
Susan Mallery
#87. I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.'
Conor Oberst
#88. Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I'm not lonely, if that's what it seems like. Always writing things down.
Chris Campanioni
#90. 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
#92. 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
#93. We lived in and out of our flight bags, they being our true and only home. Thus, if we were not actually flying or sleeping, we were often lonely and at a loss to occupy ourselves.
Ernest K. Gann
#94. You had a magic mirror that let you see life outside your tiny world. Your castle. I had books. Reading them is like traveling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives. It made life far less...lonely.
Liz Braswell
#95. Elijah, as always, is being unusually kind. While he himself is not lonely, he doesn't mind talking to lonely people. He is the Mother Teresa of banter.
David Levithan
#97. I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.
Julie Walters
#99. That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.
Erik Paulsen
#100. As he reached the door of the chapel and turned back for a last look, he saw that the Virgin too was sad and lonely; the most alone human being God ever put on earth.
Irving Stone
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