Top 25 Feeling Alone Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

— Robin Williams

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2. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”

— Orson Welles

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3. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”

— Mother Teresa

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4. “I’m all alone, but I’m not lonely.”

— Haruki Murakami

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5. “How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”

— David Foster Wallace

6. “He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind – that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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7. “All great and precious things are lonely.”

— John Steinbeck

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8. “Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanies them. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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9. “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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10. “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

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11. “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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12. “If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.”

— Aldous Huxley

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13. “Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.”

— Rumi

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14. “My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”

— Warsan Shire

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15. “I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us – don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!”

— Emily Dickinson

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16. “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”

— Carl Sagan

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17. “I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

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18. “I restore myself when I’m alone.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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19. “Solitude matters, and for some people, it’s the air they breathe.”

— Susan Cain

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20. “Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb scream in silence everyone’s sleeping.”

— Chester Bennington

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21. “I prefer to cry alone. Pride? No. I just want to avoid the judgement of people who don’t know the reason for my tears.”

— Demi Lovato

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22. “Stand for right, even if you stand alone.”

— Thomas S. Monson

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23. “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”

— Anne Lamott

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24. “Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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25. “No one is coming to save me; no one is coming to make life right for me; no one is coming to solve my problems. If I don’t do something, nothing is going to get better.”

— Nathaniel Branden

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