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28 Quotes When You're Feeling Lonely And Need Something To Hold Onto

Sensitive souls don't have it easy in this cruel world. 
Kirsten Corley
September 26, 2016
“Remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.”
— Ocean Vuong, Someday I’ll Love
Tagged: Depression, Alone, Spilled Ink, strength, Spoken Word, Deep Thoughts, Perspective, Loneliness
“Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.”
— Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Tagged: Loneliness, Psychology, Communication, Relationships
“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Loneliness, Sad
“Sensitive souls don’t have it easy in this cruel world. They feel like their souls are getting trampled on in so many ways. That’s why you see their eyes light up when they can caress a face or an animal, or breathe in the scent of a flower.”
— Sereno Sky, Lonely Traveller
Tagged: kindness, Introvert, Sensitivity, Life, Beautiful
“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
“Lonely is a funny thing. It's almost like another person. After a while it will keep you company if you let it”
— Ann Packer, The Dive From Clausen's Pier: A Novel
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
— Laurell K. Hamilton, A Shiver of Light (A Merry Gentry Novel)
Tagged: wounds, Depression, Pain
“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Tagged: Depression, Survival, Suffering
“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Tagged: Mental Illness, Depression, Pills, cures
“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”
— Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
Tagged: Depression, beauty, literary, mysterious
“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 walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known”
— Green Day, Green Day: "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" - [Official Video]
Tagged: Best Opening Lyrics, Song Lyrics
“One of the scariest things in life is when you come to the realization that the only thing that can save you is...yourself.”
— Demi Lovato, Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year
Tagged: strength, Finding Strength, Battling Depression, Battling Mental Illness, Mental Illness, Saving Yourself, Finding Yourself, Confidence, Depression
“I have come to realize making yourself happy is most important. Never be ashamed of how you feel. You have the right feel any emotion you want, and do what makes you happy.”
— Demi Lovato, Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year
Tagged: strength, Finding Strength, Battling Depression, Battling Mental Illness, Mental Illness, Saving Yourself, Finding Yourself, Confidence, Depression, Happiness, Love Yourself, Putting Yourself First
“Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.”
— Demi Lovato, Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year
Tagged: strength, Finding Strength, Battling Depression, Battling Mental Illness, Mental Illness, Be yourself, Your Story, Changing Your Life
“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
“It was a weird kind of loneliness, feeling that some of my closest friends didn’t actually know I existed.”
— Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything
Tagged: Lonely, Friends, Strangers
“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Lonely, Letting Go, Desperate
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
— Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa Quotes
Tagged: Lonely, Feeling, terrible, Poverty
“Loneliness is a quiet devastation.”
— Katie Hafner, Researchers Confront an Epidemic of Loneliness
Tagged: Loneliness, Depression, Single, Mental Health
“Denying you feel lonely makes no more sense than denying you feel hunger.”
— John T. Cacioppo, Researchers Confront an Epidemic of Loneliness
Tagged: Loneliness, Depression, Mental Health
“I'm struggling just to get through the days. I think a lot of people are.”
— Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber Has Given A Brutally Honest Interview About The Effects Of Fame
Tagged: Depression, Depression Awareness
“On the other side of your pain is something good.”
— Dwayne Johnson, How a Bout of Depression Led to Dwayne Johnson's Career-Defining Moment | Master Class | OWN
Tagged: Depression Awareness, Mental Health Awareness
“There's no shame in dealing with these things. There's no shame in having to fight every day.”
— Jared Padalecki, ‘Supernatural’ Star Jared Padalecki Talks Depression and Why You Should ‘Always Keep Fighting’
Tagged: Mental Health Awareness, Depression
“If you saw the size of the blessing coming you'd understand the magnitude of the battle you are fighting.”
— The Good Quote, FB Fanpage
Tagged: Fight On, Depression, Sad Quotes
“You wake up every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before, and that my love is bravery.”
— Unknown, FB Fanpage
Tagged: Depression, Bravery, Love, Demons
“The only people awake at 3am are in love, lonely, drunk, or all three.”
— Zephirus, via Tumblr
Tagged: 3am Thoughts, 3AM, Lonely, Thinking, Up At Night
“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