Top 100 Loneliness Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “We live as we dream – alone...”

— Joseph Conrad

52. “The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.”

— Charles Bukowski

53. “There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”

— Franz Kafka

54. “There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”

— Charles Bukowski

55. “So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”

— Jack Kerouac

56. “We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.”

— Joseph Conrad

57. “I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself.”

— Haruki Murakami

58. “Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart...”

— Khalil Gibran

59. “I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.”

— Hermann Hesse

60. “Do not fear, for I am with you – Isaiah 41:10.”

— Anonymous

61. “I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

62. “I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.”

— Dr. Seuss

63. “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

64. “Leave my loneliness unbroken.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Aldous Huxley

66. “I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”

— Henry Rollins

67. “Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.”

— Bruce Lee

68. “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”

— Charlotte Brontë

69. “I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”

— Khalil Gibran

70. “I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

71. “Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

— Mary Shelley

72. “My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”

— Khalil Gibran

73. “Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.”

— Sigmund Freud

74. “I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.”

— Charles Bukowski

75. “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”

— George R.R. Martin

76. “She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.”

— Ayn Rand

77. “A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.”

— John Steinbeck

78. “Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you’re lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that’s not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.”

— Michael Jackson

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

— John Steinbeck

80. “Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.”

— Bob Dylan

81. “Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”

— Charles Bukowski

82. “I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

83. “Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.”

— Fred Rogers

84. “Loneliness is equal to the radius of one’s awareness.”

— Yoko Ono

85. “If you fear loneliness, then don’t get married.”

— Anton Chekhov

86. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

— Maya Angelou

87. “Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.”

— Johnny Cash

88. “I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm – two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.”

— Nhat Hanh

89. “Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.”

— Ian Fleming

90. “Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.”

— David Foster Wallace

91. “I’m supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I’m lonely. But I’m married to my loneliness.”

— Lady Gaga

92. “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

93. “Start announcing freedom from anything that’s holding you back. Freedom from addictions, freedom from loneliness, freedom from lack, freedom from struggle. You are prophesying your future. Your words are setting the direction for your life.”

— Joel Osteen

94. “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

— John Steinbeck

95. “We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we’ve never even met?”

— David Foster Wallace

96. “Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

97. “Words are loneliness.”

— Henry Miller

98. “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; – it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

— Jane Austen

99. “Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class – which again breeds isolation, loneliness.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

100. “I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others – young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald