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Lonely Quotes

Last updated: December 14, 2020

130 Lonely Quotes organized by Most Popular

“Introverts don't get lonely if they don't socialize with a lot of people, but we do get lonely if we don't have intimate interactions on a regular basis.”
— Sophia Dembling, The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World
Tagged: Introverts, Loneliness, Lonely, Human Interaction, introverts' relationships
“I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.”
— Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Tagged: Lonely, No Friends, Sad Life
“Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. Sad too. Touch, touch me.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Tagged: Lonely, Sad, romance, Connection
“I think I’m just breathing, that’s all. And there’s a difference between breathing and being alive.”
— John Boyne, The Absolutist
Tagged: Life Quote, Lonely, Life and Existence
“She didn’t need a protector or a rescuer. But she did need him.”
— Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
Tagged: Needing Someone, Lonely
“Love all the people you can. The suffering from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness. ”
— Susan Hale, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Lonely, Suffering, Compare
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known”
— Carson McCullers, The Carson McCullers Project
Tagged: Sadness, Lonely, Deep
“Let go of the real source of our unhappiness: our own self-obsession. Stress, loneliness, pessimism, financial worries, and unhappy relationships all have one thing in common: they're all about 'me.'”
— David Michie, Mindfulness Is Better Than Chocolate: A Practical Guide to Enhanced Focus and Lasting Happiness in a World of Distractions
Tagged: Stress, Unhappy, Lonely
“Some people there’s no getting over.”
— Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy: A Novel(The Travis Family)
Tagged: Moving On, Lonely
“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, The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 4(1927-1931)
Tagged: Lonely, Relationships, People
“Now I know I’ve got a heart because it is breaking.”
— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Tagged: Heartbroken, Lonely, Hurting
“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
Tagged: Solitude, solitary, Alone, solitary enjoyment, Independence, solitude is independence, Lonely
“Before I knew the phrase ‘irl’ I knew that irl was never going to be the place I felt most at home, which is a lonely thing to know from a young age, maybe.”
— Chrissy Stockton, Chaos Magic
Tagged: Loneliness, Lonely, IRL, Existence, Quote of the Moment
“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
“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Tagged: Friendship, Lonely, humanity
“Singleness is just a state of being, like what color shirt you are wearing, or what hair style you are currently sporting. It isn’t inherently good or bad, it is totally value neutral!”
— Jacob Geers, Read This If Being The One Single Friend Is Getting Really F*cking Old
Tagged: How To Be Single Again, Being Single, The Single Life, Alone, Lonely, Independence, Funny, humor, Single AF
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.”
— Stephen King, The Stand
Tagged: Lonely, Self Worth, Changing, Stephen King Quotes
“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, Sputnik Sweetheart
Tagged: Lonely, lonliness, Human Connection
“Lonely was much better than alone.”
— Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
Tagged: Lonely, Alone, Friendship, Relationships
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes
Tagged: Lonely, Feeling, terrible, Poverty
“Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.”
— Stephen King, Lisey's Story
Tagged: Lonely, Alone
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.”
— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
Tagged: Series Of Unfortunate Events, Lonely, Alone, Depression
“I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.”
— Delta Burke, 31 Essential Quotes For Singles
Tagged: Single, Womanhood, Love, Beautiful, Profound, Alone, Lonely
“It’s like when someone says, ‘How are you?’ Do you say, ‘Well, my head hurts and I’m lonely and depressed and I’m worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil’? Or do you say, ‘I’m fine’?”
— Sara Shepard, The Visibles
Tagged: Depression, Anxiety, Lonely
“You know what you bring to the table, and this is why you’re not afraid to eat alone.”
— Natalie Julia, 9 Reasons Why Intelligent People Have Fewer Friends
Tagged: Alone, Lonely, H4D-6
“You know that being alone isn't the same as being lonely. You make time for your friends but understand that scheduling 'me' time is okay, too.”
— Cassandra Rose, 15 Things Only Old Souls Will Understand
Tagged: Old Souls, Alone, Lonely, Me Time
“More often than not, you feel lonely and isolated, but you feel proud of yourself for being strong and independent at the same time.”
— Rayi Noormega, 10 Uncomfortable Signs You’re Actually Becoming The Person You’re Supposed To Be
Tagged: Independent, Lonely, Isolated, H4D-9
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone.”
— Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway
Tagged: Alone, Lonely, Death
“The human soul is a lonely thing.”
— Jack London, The People of the Abyss
Tagged: human, Soul, Lonely
“I was with them and yet I was alone.”
— Albert Camus, The Plague
Tagged: Lonely, Bad Friends, Misunderstood, Sad
“My heart is sad and lonely
For you I sigh, for you dear only
Why haven't you seen it
I'm all for you body and soul
I spend my days in longing
And wondering why it's me you're wronging”
— John Coltrane, Body And Soul
Tagged: Sad, Lonely, Longing, Heartache
“When you’re lonely and blacking out in strange places, you let other lonely people do what they want to you. You call it free love.”
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
Tagged: Lonely, hungry for love, Addiction
“Dance all night cause people, they don't wanna be lonely.”
— The Black Keys, Weight of Love
Tagged: dance, all night, People, Lonely
“Take your hand and walk away.”
— System Of A Down, Lonely Day
Tagged: hand, walk away, Alone, Lonely
“Maybe I’m not
what you want;
I’m just what
distracts you
until you get it.

But I hope you
still want me
when you aren’t
lonely.”
— Chloë Frayne
Tagged: Poetry, Distraction, Desire, Lonely
“Who shall unravel the mystery of a woman's weeping? Who shall declare whether it is pain or a relief to the over-charged heart? . . . When love's burning finger touches the pulse, and marks its slow or rapid beatings. And Thelma wept, as many of her sex weep, without knowing why, save that all suddenly she felt herself most lonely and forlorn.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Lonely, Loneliness, Solitude, Sadness, Melancholy, Depression
“I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn’t have at dusk.”
— Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution For Holy Beings
Tagged: Poetry, Love, Lonely, Relationships, Color
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”
— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Tagged: Anne Frank, Alone, Lonely, Love, God
“Be good and you will be lonesome.”
— Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Tagged: Lonely, Goodness, morals, Ethics, humanity, Truth, unfortunate truth, Reality, realist, Logic, Life, way of life
“In all it’s resting moments
My brain floats back to you.”
— 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
“I have never loved without causing harm.”
— Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production
Tagged: Love, emotions, Heartbreak, Sad, Lonely