Top 100 Loneliness Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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2. “Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

— Nikola Tesla

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3. “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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4. “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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5. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”

— Mother Teresa

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6. “And all I loved, I loved alone.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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7. “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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8. “All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.”

— Haruki Murakami

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9. “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

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10. “In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”

— Carl Sagan

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11. “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

— Hafez

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12. “When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.”

— Lana Del Rey

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13. “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the most terrible poverty.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Wayne W. Dyer

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15. “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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16. “The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

17. “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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18. “In solitude, where we are least alone.”

— Lord Byron

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19. “If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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20. “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”

— Franz Kafka

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21. “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

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22. “I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”

— Franz Kafka

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23. “I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.”

— Robert Browning

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24. “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”

— Aristotle

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25. “It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”

— Mother Teresa

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26. “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

— Frida Kahlo

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27. “A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.”

— Leo Buscaglia

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28. “If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.”

— Michael Josephson

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29. “And if I’m alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.”

— Paulo Coelho

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30. “We read to know we're not alone.”

— William Nicholson

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

— Haruki Murakami

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32. “I’m not alone, but I am lonely without you.”

— Mary Martin

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33. “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

— C.G. Jung

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34. “Memories consume Like opening the wound I’m picking me apart again You all assume I’m safe here in my room Unless I try to start again.”

— Linkin Park

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35. “As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”

— C.G. Jung

36. “Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut you more deeply. Let it ferment and season you as few human and even divine ingredients can. Something missing in my heart tonight has made my eyes so soft, my voice so tender, my need for God absolutely clear.”

— Hafez

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37. “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”

— Mother Teresa

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38. “Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.”

— Isaac Asimov

39. “Some walks you have to take alone.”

— Suzanne Collins

40. “In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.”

— Ayn Rand

41. “If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”

— C.G. Jung

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42. “I’m not okay.”

— Gerard Way

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43. “I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”

— Haruki Murakami

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44. “When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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45. “The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”

— Henrik Ibsen

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46. “But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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47. “The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.”

— Ravi Zacharias

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48. “To create art means to be crazy alone forever.”

— Charles Bukowski

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49. “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.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

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50. “Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?”

— Mother Teresa

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