Top 80 Lonely Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Artist Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Quotes About Songs

2. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Friends Quotes

3. “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Sad Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Meaning of Life Quotes

4. “The strong must learn to be lonely.”

— Henrik Ibsen

Also featured in: Strong Quotes

5. “Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Humanism Quotes, Wise Quotes

6. “The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.”

— Charlie Chaplin

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Sadness Quotes, Emo Quotes

7. “It’s just me against the world.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Struggle Quotes, Artist Quotes, Adversity Quotes

8. “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

Also featured in: Feeling Alone Quotes, Solitude Quotes

9. “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Emotional Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Quotes About Feelings

10. “If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Identity Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

11. “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.”

— Sarah Dessen

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Quotes About Heart

12. “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Individuality Quotes

13. “Me, myself and I. That’s all I got in the end.”

— Beyoncé Knowles

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Artist Quotes, Individuality Quotes

14. “Nobody loves you when you’re down and out.”

— John Lennon

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life

15. “People are strange when you’re a stranger.”

— Jim Morrison

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

— Warsan Shire

Also featured in: Focus On Yourself Quotes, Feeling Alone Quotes, Solitude Quotes

17. “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

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

18. “You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found.”

— Kid Cudi

19. “Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Loss Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Depression Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

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

— H.P. Lovecraft

Also featured in: Feeling Alone Quotes

21. “How we need another soul to cling to.”

— Sylvia Plath

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Depression Quotes, Longing Quotes

22. “I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?”

— Emily Dickinson

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes

23. “The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Demotivational Quotes

24. “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

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Depression Quotes, Feeling Alone Quotes

25. “People think they know me, but they don’t. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Sorrow Quotes, Depression Quotes, Hurt Quotes

26. “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

Also featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Depression Quotes, Feeling Alone Quotes

27. “I’m a creep. I’m a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here.”

— Thom Yorke

Also featured in: Depression Quotes, Quotes About Songs, Doubt Quotes, Rejection Quotes

28. “Even if the whole world turns their back on you, you will always have yourself.”

— Lady Gaga

Also featured in: Recovery Quotes, Strong Women Quotes, Love Yourself Quotes

29. “To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Also featured in: Genius Quotes

30. “Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself – if they could live in my memories – would anyone, anyone, love me?”

— John Green

Also featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Depression Quotes

31. “Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

32. “I am alone. There is no God where I am.”

— Aleister Crowley

Also featured in: Demotivational Quotes

33. “Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.”

— Anthony de Mello

34. “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

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Quotes About People, Loneliness Quotes

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

— Nikola Tesla

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Quotes About Ideas, Genius Quotes

36. “The sadness will last forever.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Artist Quotes, Depression Quotes, Pain Quotes, Sadness Quotes

37. “God loves you simply because He has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don’t feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you always. No matter what!”

— Max Lucado

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Christian Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

38. “It’s easier to run Replacing this pain with something numb It’s so much easier to go Than face all this pain here all alone.”

— Linkin Park

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Depression Quotes, Pain Quotes

39. “No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it’s hard to carry on when, No one loves you.”

— Tupac Shakur

Also featured in: Struggle Quotes, Love You Quotes, Depression Quotes, Pain Quotes

40. “Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.”

— Ja Rule

Also featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Depression Quotes

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

— Henrik Ibsen

Also featured in: Strong Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Solitude Quotes

42. “Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Mind Quotes

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

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Loneliness Quotes, Feeling Alone Quotes, Solitude Quotes

44. “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”

— Voltaire

Also featured in: Solitude Quotes

45. “Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Solitude Quotes

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

— John Steinbeck

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Feeling Alone Quotes, Solitude Quotes

47. “Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Friday Inspirational Quotes, Virtue Quotes

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

— Aldous Huxley

Also featured in: Sad Quotes About Life, Different Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

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

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Loneliness Quotes

50. “If you came to see the truth, the purity, it’s here inside a lonely heart.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Sadness Quotes