60 Quotes For Feeling Alone

In this age of digital connectivity, people continue to move further and further away from each other. The sense of community continues to fade away. In such a time of transitional connections, it’s more than anticipated to feel alone. A feeling of loneliness and listlessness overtakes everyone, but it’s crucial to prevent falling into a sense of despair. Being alone and spending time with yourself is an excellent way to reflect. We hope these quotes help you find yourself by yourself!

quotes to appreciate being alone

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.


1.“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

2.“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. That thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.” —Anne Hathaway

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

3.“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins

4.“A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” — Mandy Hale

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

5.“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

6.“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” — Pearl Buck

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.

7.“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

8.“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.” — Laurence Sterne

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

9.“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.” — Henrik Ibsen

10.“If you smile when you are alone then you really mean it.” –Andy Rooney

And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

11.“And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.” ― L.M. Montgomery

12.“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone, and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” —Pau Tillich

The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

13.“The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” —Justin Timberlake

14.“There’s nothing abnormal about loneliness.” —Paula Stokes

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely.

15.“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely.” —Lorraine Hansberry

Inspirational quotes about loneliness

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


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

2.“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” — Michel de Montaigne

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.

3.“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 William


4.“Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.” —Anonymous

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

5.“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” – Ellen Burstyn


6.“Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.” —Robert Tew

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.

7.“The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” —Douglas Coupland

8.“Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.” — Guillermo Maldonado

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering, and it’s all over much too soon.

9.“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering, and it’s all over much too soon.” —Woody Allen

10.“I always joke about being alone forever but I really do believe there isn’t someone out there for me.” ― Pavan

Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realize your place in nature.

11.“Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realize your place in nature.” ― Dave Davies

12.“Being alone has a power that very few people can handle.” ― Steven Aitchison

I’m learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I’m doing.

13.“I’m learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I’m doing.” — Chantal Kreviazuk

14.“I think it’s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.” —Amy Sedaris

There is nothing outside of yourself. Look within. Everything you want is there.

15.“There is nothing outside of yourself. Look within. Everything you want is there.” —Rumi

Quotes about the happiness of being alone

There are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.

1.“There are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.” ― M.W Poetry

2.“When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.” ― Keanu Reeves

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

3.“I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.” ― Audrey Hepburn

4.“To be alone is to be different and to be different is to be alone.” ― Suzanne Gordon

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.

5.“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.” ― Richard Yates

6.“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” ― Anthony Burgess

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

7.“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone and sometimes life is too good to be alone.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

8.“I love to be alone. I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” ― Henry David Thoreau

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.

9.“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

10.“Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you’ll realize you have no one to turn to.” —Soraya

I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.


11.“I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” —Hunter S. Thompson


12.“For fear you will be alone, you do so many things that aren’t you at all.” —Richard Brautigan

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

13.“Ordinary men hate solitude. But the master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.” —Lao Tzu

14.“There is something immaculate about loneliness which only lonely people can understand.” —Munia Khan

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart…and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

15.“We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart…and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.” —Helen Hayes

quotes about solitude

No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can’t be open with them about who you truly are, you’re still alone.

1.“No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can’t be open with them about who you truly are, you’re still alone.” ― Diane Chamberlain

2.“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.” ― Cheryl Strayed

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.

3.”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

4.“Feeling alone guides the mind.” ― Claude Bernard

5.“Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.” ― Amelia Earhart

6.“Being alone is more painful than getting hurt.” ― Eiichiro Oda

7.“Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.” ― Osho

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

8.“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

9.“Yes, there is joy, fulfillment, and companionship, but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.” —Sylvia Plath

10.“What makes us lonely are the feelings that we never share with anyone.” ― Bunny Naidu

11.“Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error.” ― Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame.

12.“Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame.” ― Miranda Hart

13.“Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone.” ― Arnold Rothstein

14.“Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.” —Martha Beck

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that

15.“When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.” — Gertrude Stein

16.“We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.” — Hafiz of Persia