Feeling Loneliness Quotes

Discover 100+ powerful feeling loneliness quotes and feeling of loneliness quotes that remind you you are part of a vast, shared human story. When the quiet feels too loud, let these voices bring comfort.

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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSolitude
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Henry RollinsSolitude
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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Albert SchweitzerUnderstanding
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya AngelouHope
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.

Anne FrankHope
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If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

Paulo CoelhoSolitude
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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.

May SartonSolitude
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I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.

Robin WilliamsUnderstanding
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Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.

UnknownSolitude
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You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

Amit RayConnection
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de MontaigneSolitude
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Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Thomas WolfeUnderstanding
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To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.

Suzanne GordonUnderstanding
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Norman CousinsConnection
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only animal who knows he is alone.

Octavio PazUnderstanding
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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in crowds, the crowd eats him.

Friedrich NietzscheUnderstanding
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome.

Henry David ThoreauSolitude
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I restore myself when I'm alone. It's when I'm with other people that I become exhausted.

Ansel AdamsSolitude
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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Mark TwainUnderstanding
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Feeling lonely is a normal human emotion. It's a signal that you need to connect with others.

Brené BrownUnderstanding
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You cannot be lonely if you are in company of the person you're alone with.

Dr. SeussConnection
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I had to become my own best friend because I was never going to find someone who would love me as much as I needed to be loved.

Alicia KeysHope
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The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical but it's not.

OshoConnection
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Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Paul TillichSolitude
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, clarity and connection.

Glennon DoyleUnderstanding
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I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.

Mary ShelleyUnderstanding
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I am an outcast in the world forever. I have no one to comfort me, no one to whom I can pour out my sorrows.

Mary Shelley (Frankenstein's Monster)Understanding
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I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and despised by all mankind?

Mary Shelley (Frankenstein's Monster)Understanding
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I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathised, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.

Mary Shelley (Frankenstein's Monster)Understanding
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The eternal loneliness of the soul is this: that we are all imprisoned in our own skins, unable to truly know another.

Anaïs NinUnderstanding
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There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.

Nora RobertsHope
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Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

Joan CollinsUnderstanding
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Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Paul TournierUnderstanding
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I have often been lonely, but I have never been alone. There's a difference.

Megan McCaffertySolitude
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother TeresaUnderstanding
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis StevensonConnection
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The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother TeresaUnderstanding
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The greatest pain in life is not physical pain, but emotional loneliness.

UnknownUnderstanding
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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

George WashingtonSolitude
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The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Doug CouplandSolitude
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You can't be lonely if you're comfortable with yourself.

UnknownSolitude
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Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space.

Janet FitchUnderstanding
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I'm funny in real life. I try not to be a dark person. But loneliness does funny things to people.

Alicia VikanderUnderstanding
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Better to be sometimes alone than never to be alone.

Mary SartonSolitude
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Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Anne HathawayUnderstanding
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo EmersonSolitude
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Life is full of loneliness, misery, suffering, and unhappiness - and it's all over much too quickly.

Woody AllenUnderstanding
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I think in our mad rush, we have lost our way. In our attempt to be everything to everyone, we are becoming nothing to anyone.

Abhijit NaskarUnderstanding
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We are all lonely for something we don't know we're looking for.

Coco ChanelUnderstanding
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The path of loneliness is also the path of self-discovery.

Deepak ChopraSolitude
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When the sense of loneliness is overwhelming, you must understand that this feeling is an illusion.

Eckhart TolleUnderstanding
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David ThoreauSolitude
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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Pearl BuckSolitude
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The absence of loneliness creates emptiness.

Marty RubinUnderstanding
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We are all prisoners of our own minds. That is why loneliness is so painful.

Fyodor DostoevskyUnderstanding
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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Marcus AureliusSolitude
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Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Charles BukowskiUnderstanding
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Jean de La BruyèreUnderstanding
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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David ThoreauSolitude
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The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart.

OshoHope
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I restore myself when I'm alone.

Marilyn MonroeSolitude
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I think being in love with someone is better than being alone.

Thich Nhat HanhConnection
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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob MarleyConnection
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Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

Honoré de BalzacConnection
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I'm learning to love myself. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

Marilyn MonroeHope
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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Thomas JeffersonSolitude
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The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.

Hugh MacLeodUnderstanding
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

John MiltonUnderstanding
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Never say you are alone, for you are not alone. Your God is with you wherever you are.

Muhammad AliHope
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Ferdinand FochHope
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In the silence of loneliness, the truth reveals itself.

Debasish MridhaUnderstanding
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The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.

UnknownHope
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Without solitude, there can be no genuine self-knowledge.

James W. HallSolitude
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The real loneliness is not being able to share your deepest secrets with someone.

UnknownUnderstanding
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We are all born alone and die alone. In between, we create connections.

UnknownConnection
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Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

Guillermo MaldonadoUnderstanding
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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Thich Nhat HanhSolitude
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When we're alone, we can connect with our inner selves.

Deepak ChopraSolitude
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The greatest evil is physical pain, but the greatest good is the absence of pain from the soul.

Saint AugustineUnderstanding
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You find fresh grooves of loneliness, where old avenues have been closed off.

Sebastian BarryUnderstanding
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A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings.

Mandy HaleHope
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The hardest part about being alone is that you have no one to blame but yourself.

UnknownUnderstanding
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The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely in the midst of a crowd.

Carson McCullersUnderstanding
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Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom.

Nancy Wynne BoltonSolitude
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The cure for loneliness is solitude.

Marty RubinSolitude
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Where you are used to being alone, you keep the house clean.

Robert M. DrakeSolitude
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Your best companion is your own consciousness.

Debasish MridhaSolitude
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I exist as I am, that is enough.

Walt WhitmanSolitude
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Wayne DyerSolitude
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He who travels alone travels fastest.

Oscar WildeSolitude
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In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Deepak ChopraSolitude
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Only in loneliness do we find our true selves.

UnknownUnderstanding
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The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Nat King ColeConnection
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We are 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 WellesConnection
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar WildeSolitude
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The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can change his life by altering his attitude.

William JamesHope
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Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul speaks.

Rasheed OgunlaruSolitude
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The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness, it's intimacy.

Richard BachConnection
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Loneliness is the space between me and what I must become.

AberjhaniHope
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If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Jean-Paul SartreSolitude
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The greatest freedom is the freedom to be alone.

UnknownSolitude
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We are all lonely ships sailing on different courses.

UnknownUnderstanding
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The best way to deal with loneliness is to create a relationship with yourself.

UnknownSolitude
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The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Elisabeth FoleyConnection
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When you're lonely, you feel like you're the only person in the world.

Linda RonstadtUnderstanding
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The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

ThucydidesHope
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We are never more aware of our dependence on others than when we are alone.

UnknownUnderstanding
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The strongest men are the most alone.

Henrik IbsenUnderstanding
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A lonely day is God's way of saying that you need to make time for yourself.

UnknownSolitude
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. RooseveltHope
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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Charles R. SwindollHope
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The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Tony RobbinsHope
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Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve JobsSolitude
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor RooseveltHope
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo EmersonHope
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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Chinese ProverbHope
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

John GreenHope

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