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Loneliness Quotes

Loneliness Quotes

Last updated: September 23, 2024

32 Loneliness Quotes organized by Most Popular

“I can’t help it. It’s tearing me all up inside. I’m like that all through. I can’t help it.”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Tagged: Pain, Misery, Loneliness
“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.”
— Paul Tournier, Guilt & Grace
Tagged: Loneliness, Secrets, Alone
“I hate them for not being in pain like me, hate them for being able to enjoy themselves. Hate myself for feeling that way.”
— Chevy Stevens, Still Missing
Tagged: Pain, Loneliness, Envy, Pity
“If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to that song anymore.
But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
— Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
Tagged: Loneliness, nostalgic
“What I needed seemed to be absent everywhere.”
— Charles Bukowski, Introduction to "Ask the Dust" by John Fante
Tagged: Loneliness, Sad People
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”
— David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Tagged: Antisocial Behavior, Distant person, Loneliness
“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
“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Tagged: Loneliness, Sadness, Human Emotions
“In the world I am 
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence.”
— Bei Dao, via Amazon
Tagged: World, self, Understanding, understanding the world, Solitude, Loneliness, poem, Poetry
“Being lonely is OK, and not everyone has to like you. You can’t always rely on people.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events
Tagged: Loneliness, Thoughts, realizations
“And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be left alone.”
— L. M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill
Tagged: Encouragement, Heartache, Being Alone, Loneliness, Unloveable
“She had a look of suffering and I was struck less by her beauty than by the extraordinary loneliness in her eyes.”
— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Tagged: Loneliness, Suffering
“It’s hard being left behind… It’s hard to be the one who stays.”
— Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Tagged: Loneliness, Left Behind
“In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims
Tagged: Loneliness
“I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.”
— Dennis Cooper, Guide
Tagged: Love, Wishful Thinking, Loneliness, Life
“When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he’d even bothered.”
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Tagged: lost soul, Belonging, finding a place, searching for a place, Finding Purpose, Loneliness, Solitude, Life, Life's Purpose
“I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.”
— Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel
Tagged: Attachment, Loneliness, Reality Of Love
“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Angel's Game
Tagged: Sad, Loneliness, Poetic
“He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tagged: Discontent, Loneliness
“I was so tired of being alone, but I was always alone, even with people around me. And I was so tired of being surrounded, but I was always surrounded, even when I was by myself.”
— Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner
Tagged: Loneliness
“I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”
— Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy
Tagged: Books, Escapism, novel, Literature, Loneliness
“When I stopped convincing myself that I was alone, I realized that I was surrounded — by human beings who just wanted to connect, and that was beautiful. That was when my healing began, that was when I started to realize that we need each other more than we will every truly comprehend.”
— Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars
Tagged: Healing, Recovery, Loneliness
“I feel lonely for the sound of your voice.”
— Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
Tagged: Loneliness, Missing Someone, voice, Presence
“Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely.”
— Celine, Before Sunset
Tagged: Love, Loneliness, Toxic Relationship
“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
“We do not need to reveal ourselves to others, but only to those we love. For then we are no longer revealing ourselves in order to seem but in order to give. There is much more strength in a man who reveals himself only when it is necessary. I have suffered from being alone, but because I have been able to keep my secret I have overcome the suffering of loneliness.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
Tagged: Solitude, Loneliness, Alone, Openness, Suffering
“I’m not much but I’m all I have.”
— Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip
Tagged: self, self awareness, Self Confidence, Loneliness, Alone, Solitude, Optimism, Self Worth
“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life…it’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team. When the check is paid and you stay at the table. When it’s 4 a.m. and no one goes to bed. That night with the guitar. That night we can’t remember. That time we did, we went, we saw, we laughed, we felt.”
— Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness
Tagged: Loneliness, Feeling, Opposite of Loneliness
“I’m fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. The next minute I never want to feel ever again.”
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Tagged: Loneliness, Sorrow, Human Emotions, Forgetting The Past
“Solitude was corrupting me.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tagged: Solitude, Loneliness, Alone, solitary, Isolation
“But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”
— Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone: Essays
Tagged: Loneliness
“I hate the idea of lonely. And I hate the reality of attachment.”
— Reyna Biddy, Untitled
Tagged: Attachment, Loneliness