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Lonely Quotes

Last updated: September 25, 2024

76 Lonely Quotes organized by Most Popular

“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”
— Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway(Odysseys in Artistry)
Tagged: Writing, Craft, Art, Art & Expression, writer, Life, Loneliness, Lonely
“It’s just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.”
— Sara Zarr, How To Save a Life
Tagged: Supervision, Dependent, Lonely
“It’s better this way. A little lonelier but better.”
— Lisa Schroeder, The Day Before
Tagged: Better this Way, Lonely
“I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.”
— Lili St. Crow, Jealousy
Tagged: Temporary, Leaving, Lonely, nothing is permanent, Nothing Lasts Forever
“I can feel you through your lonely eyes, and I hope one day you'll understand how everything that hurt us was everything that made us who we are.”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: Lonely, Hope, One Day, hurt, Made You Who You Are, R.M Drake
“Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them… awakening feelings that gather into great armies.”
— Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Tagged: Lonely, lonely people, Loneliness, Alone
“They leave me and I love them more.”
— Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
Tagged: Lonely, Leaving, reality of life
“The reason you want to text them right now is probably not because you feel, deep down, that they are the one. The reason you want to text them is something else – loneliness, lack of closure, boredom, a sense of being lost, perhaps the feeling that everyone around you is settling down and you don’t want to be the last one left.”
— Kim Quindlen, When You Want To Text Them And You Know You Shouldn’t
Tagged: Texting, Lonely, Closure, Bored
“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Tagged: Lonely, Sadness, Helping other, Compassion, kindness, Empathy
“You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s one and only.”
— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Tagged: Lonely, Loved, One And Only
“I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent?”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: Lonely, Alone, Independence
“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”
— Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel
Tagged: Lonely, Love, Sleeping, Dating
“By virtue of being human, you will experience suffering, confusion, remorse, and loneliness over your lifetime. This is normal. The really good news? You can easily shift the scale in your favor if you choose to ignore all of the things that are considered normal or rites of passage and instead remain loyal to whatever it is that is meaningful to you.”
— Ran Zilca, The Hard-to-Hear Advice Every 20-Something Needs
Tagged: 20 somethings, Suffering, Confusion, Lonely
“It's funny to think that Christmas — a time known for its joyful togetherness — can be the loneliest time of the year for some.”
— Giovanna Fletcher, Christmas With Billy and Me
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Lonely, Alone
“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, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: Lonely, Alone, Loner, Fitting In, Disappointment, Blending in the world
“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, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Lonely, Alone, Falling Apart
“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women: A Novel
Tagged: Lonely, Alone
“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”
— Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
Tagged: Best Of Children's Quotes, Children, Love, Relationships, Lonely
“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, The Healing Angel Within
Tagged: Lonely, Depression, Trust
“I’m homesick for a place
That no longer exists
Us.”
— Shalini Dua, 11 Poems For When Your Wanderlust Is Not For A Place, But For A Person
Tagged: Love, Missing Him, Wanderlust, Love & Relationships, Thinking of You, Lonely, My Favorites, Long Distance Love, break ups, Missing Someone
“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, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
Tagged: Falling Apart, Lonely, Loneliness
“When you don't have love, it's like there's a party going on, and everybody was invited, except for you. And you just happened to be walking by that house in the rain.”
— Dane Cook, Wikiquote.org: Dane Cook
Tagged: Love, Sad, Unloved, party, Invitation, Friends, Relationship, Lonely, Alone, Rain
““I feel bad about my struggle, because it is nothing compared to other people’s struggles and yet it still hurts.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Depression, First world problems, Lonely
“I cried on a toilet in the middle of New York City. Four times in one day. I counted. I
promise.

That time I was stunned by my own pudendum. The smell.

Then I became ashamed of my shame, et cetera, infinity until the end of time itself.”
— Erika L. Sánchez, Poem of My Humiliations
Tagged: I Hate Myself, Sad, Lonely
“this
lonely
attracts
men
to my ankles,
the way
the drip of a mango
causes fire ants
to find their teeth.”
— Hilda Davis, Sweet Thing | The Offing
Tagged: Self-Destructive, Lonely, Sad Girl, Defense Mechanisms, Poetry, Fave
“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met―it may be another hundred before we meet again.”
— Edith Wharton,, The Age of Innocence: The Wild and Wanton Edition, Volume 2
Tagged: Love, romance, Missing Someone, Absence, Sadness, Lonely, Heartbreak, breakup
“I had a job, I had great friends, I had a supportive family. But still, I felt so lonely, so worthless, so useless, so unlovable.”
— Danimei Everett, I Was Once A ‘Hannah Baker’ And This Is How I Really Feel About ’13 Reasons Why’
Tagged: Lonely, depressed, H4D-13
“The deepest loneliness came from not knowing whom to call to share the mundane details of her life.”
— Patti Callahan Henry, The Art of Keeping Secrets
Tagged: Lonely, Alone, H4D-22
“Welcome to the world. You will hurt the people you love the most. You will say stupid things and embarrass yourself repeatedly. You will crash your car and lose your wallet before the bill comes. You will get sick, sad and lonely.”
— Markus Almond, Motivational Quotes To Get The Blood Moving
Tagged: World, Welcome, hurt, Hurtful, Hurt People, Stupid, Mistakes, Sick, Sad, Lonely
“This shit is so lonely until she get naked.”
— Mac Miller, Miguel, Weekend(feat. Miguel)
Tagged: Lonely, Naked, Sex, Alone
“I'm somebody now, Harry. Everybody likes me. Soon, millions of people will see me and they'll all like me. I'll tell them about you, and your father, how good he was to us. Remember? It's a reason to get up in the morning. It's a reason to lose weight, to fit in the red dress. It's a reason to smile. It makes tomorrow all right. What have I got Harry, hm? Why should I even make the bed, or wash the dishes? I do them, but why should I? I'm alone. Your father's gone, you're gone. I got no one to care for. What have I got, Harry? I'm lonely. I'm old.”
— Sara Goldfarb, Requiem for a Dream
Tagged: Somebody, Memories, Lonely, Reason
“No one should die alone.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Death, Alone, Lonely
“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, 19 Of The Best Quotes That Perfectly Explain What Depression Feels Like
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness, Mental Health, Lonely
“as a child
i suppose
i was not quite
normal.


my happiest times were
when
i was left alone in
the house on a
saturday.”
— Charles Bukowski, Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems
Tagged: Alone, Happiness, Lonely
“It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Lonely, Loneliness, humanity, Life, Loss, Grief
“Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is inside you.”
— Misha Collins, Misha Collins On Snapchat
Tagged: Lonely, Misha Collins, Universe, actor, strength, Supernatural, Macros, Illustration, Monochrome, planets, Connected
“Being the strong one can be a lonely existence.”
— Ravid Yosef, The Thing About Loneliness That All Strong Women Understand
Tagged: Strong, Lonely, strength
“The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.”
— Anthony Horowitz, Point Blank(Alex Rider Adventure)
Tagged: Alone, Lonely, crowds
“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”
— Hubert Selby, Requiem for a Dream
Tagged: Pain, Sorrow, Lonely
“Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.”
— George Jones, I Lived to Tell It All
Tagged: Lonely, Loneliness, Choice
“I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire...”
— Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove
Tagged: Alone, Lonely, Silence, Individuality
“I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn’t have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn’t go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.”
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel(Alex Awards (Awards))
Tagged: Lonely, Sadness, Hurting
“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: strength, Lonely, Outsider
“It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him.”
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Tagged: strength, Lonely, Outsider
“I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then I feel on my own.”
— Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins
Tagged: Lonely, Boring, H4D-19
“Sometimes, it’s a person’s decision to be single. Sometimes, people just don’t want a significant other. And it doesn’t mean that anything is wrong with them. It doesn’t mean that they are lonely. It doesn’t mean that their standards are too high.”
— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, I’m 24 And Single — Get The Hell Over It
Tagged: Lonely, High Standards, H4D-26
“I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put no stamp on it and it was held for postage somewhere.”
— Mark Twain, Roughing It
Tagged: Nature, experiences in nature, Friendship, Friends, messages, messages never recieved, messages for no one, travel, Lonely, Alone, Thoughts
“Some women use casual sex as a way to forget their exes. They sleep with a variety of men in order to get over the hurdle of ending a relationship. They avoid loneliness like the plague and will do anything to fill the void that the breakup has left them with.”
— Melissa LaRicca, Some Women Enjoy Casual Sex More Than Others. Here's Why.
Tagged: one-night stands, Casual Sex, Sex, Lonely
“There’s nothing like that feeling of waiting for a guy. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world. Holding that cell phone in your hand as you take out the trash, use the bathroom, change the litter box. Fearful that the one second you aren’t looking will be when they call. Pathetic. And something I have done as recently as last week.”
— Hilary Winston, My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me: And Other Stories I Shouldn't Share with Acquaintances, Coworkers, Taxi drivers, Assistants, Job Interviewers, Bikini Waxers, and Ex/Current/Future Boyfriends but Have
Tagged: Waiting, Lonely, Fear, pathetic
“I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you're sad.”
— Nikita Gill, via Tumblr
Tagged: Sad, Lonely, 3am Thoughts, Love