Loneliness Quotes

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

~ Tahereh Mafi

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

~ Charles M. Schulz

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

~ John Joseph Powell

I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.

~ Haruki Murakami

That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.

~ Haruki Murakami

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

~ Margaret Atwood

People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I'm able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn't. Love is imperfect. Falling for someone's flaws is just as necessary as falling for their strengths. And people like myself, who fall into love easily, are sometimes the loneliest souls around at the end of the day.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

People Die...Beauty Fades...Love Changes...And You Will Always Be Alone

~ L.j. Smith

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

~ Lisa Kleypas

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.

~ Stefan Zweig

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

~ Dorothy Day

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.

~ Anaïs Nin

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

~ Gillian Flynn

But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

~ Bell Hooks

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

~ Anne Rice

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

~ Douglas Coupland

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

~ Haruki Murakami

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

~ Charlotte Brontë

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

~ D.h. Lawrence

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.

~ Mandy Hale

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

~ Jackson Pearce

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

~ Amit Ray

I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone?

~ C. Joybell C.

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

~ Carson Mccullers

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.

~ Eda J. Leshan

There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.

~ Mandy Hale

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

~ Osamu Dazai

When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

~ Betty Smith

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

~ Mitch Albom

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

~ Criss Jami

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

~ Isabelle Eberhardt

even in the loneliest momentsi have been therefor myself.

~ Sanober Khan

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

~ Daniel Keyes

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

~ Suzanne Gordon

When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.

~ K.l. Toth