Loneliness Quotes—Being Alone

Sunita Khosla

 

The best remedy for those who are afraid,
lonely or unhappy is to go outside,
somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one
feel that all is as it should be. 

Anne Frank

 

 

Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Bible

Better be alone than in bad company. Thomas Fuller

Do not think of a painful experience as a dark time in your life. You emerge out of everything learning something or becoming a better person. You realize who your real friends are and how much your loved ones mean to you. Colleen Ho

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolsty

Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange. Kahlil Gibran

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. Thich Nhat Hanh

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. Walt Whitman

 

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Henry David Thoreau

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd….A host, of golden daffodils. William Wordsworth

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. Henry David Thoreau

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life.” I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou

If our lives are dedicated to enhancing the lives of everyone we come in contact with our lives can never lose meaning. Dr. David Hawkins

If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right. Jules Renard

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. Laurence Sterne

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Maya Angelou

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Harold V. Melchert

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

Loneliness, alienation from life, is a loneliness from your real self. Those who are alienated from their real self have cut themselves off from the basic and fundamental contact with life. Because of the feelings of alienation from self, human contacts are not very satisfying, and they become social recluses. One of the ways they can find themselves is to lose themselves in social activities with other people.  Dr. Maxwell Maltz

Loneliness breaks the spirit. Jewish Proverb

Loneliness is a nest for the thoughts. Kurdish Proverb

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality. Anthony De Mello

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. May Sarton

Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls, to keep our hearts warm when we are lonely. Becky Aligada

Modern man’s difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world. Benjamin Hoff

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. Lawrence Durrell

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

No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams. Unknown

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There’s nothing wrong with being alone. Wendy Wasserstein

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Vincent Van Gogh

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. John Muir

Only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. Richard Nixon

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

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. Anton Checkov

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for…Dag Hammarskjold

Somewhere there is someone that dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile, so when you are lonely remember it’s true, someone somewhere is thinking of you.

The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled.  For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. Unknown

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go … focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed. Minnie Driver

There is a rapture on the lonely shore . . . By the deep sea, and music in its roar. Lord Byron

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Thomas Wolfe

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled.  For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. Unknown

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. Ivy Baker Priest

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. Mark Twain

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate. Unknown

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. Suzanne Gordon

We are lonely even in the milling crowds of a city, where we may only be recognized as customers for goods and services. Our personalities are weakened and starved by the impersonal life in a city. That is why there is so much wreckage in a city. Our families answer this need to some degree but not completely. And so, in the last analysis it is only God who can give us the comfort of utter understanding. Lyman V. Cady

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. William Morrow

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? Epictetus