150 Being Alone Quotes & Feeling Lonely Sayings (Updated 2021)

Best Being Alone Quotes

  • “Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.” ―Osho
  • “I want to sleep until I feel better.”
  • “Being alone is more painful than getting hurt.”
  • “She was drowning but nobody saw her struggle.”
  • “I like to be alone. But I hate being lonely.”
  • “Sometimes it’s better to be alone. Nobody can hurt you.”
  • “If you could read my mind, you’d be in tears.”
  • “Standing alone is better than standing with people who don’t value you.”
  • “And then I think that maybe I was designed to be alone.”
  • “When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.” ―Conor Oberst
  • “Lonely is not being alone, it’s the feeling that no one cares.”
  • “Sometimes the worst place you can be is in your own head.”
  • “Hello, darkness, my old friend. I have to talk with you, again.”
  • “That feeling when you don’t even know what the fuck you’re feeling.”
  • “And in the end all I learned was how to be strong… Alone.”
  • “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with.”
  • “Sometimes I just want to disappear and see if anyone would miss me.”
  • “That feeling when you’re not necessarily sad, but you just feel really empty.”
  • “As for now I’m gonna hear the saddest songs and sit alone and wonder.”
  • “No, I may not be physically alone. But mentally there is no one insight.”
  • “You keep a lot to yourself because it’s difficult to find people who understand.”
  • “I’m falling apart right in front of your eyes but you don’t even see me.”
  • “Leave me alone. I’m sick of your games. Stop it. Don’t mess with me anymore.”
  • “To be alone is to be different and to be different is to be alone.”
  • “You’re not dead, but not alive either. You’re just a ghost with a beating heart.”
  • “Sometimes you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.”
  • “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
  • “There are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.”
  • “Never say you are alone for you are not alone, your God and your genius is within.”
  • “Sometimes you just need someone to tell you you’re not as terrible as you think you are.”
  • “Never fuck with someone who is not afraid to be alone. You will lose every single time.”
  • “Standing alone doesn’t mean I am alone. It means I’m strong enough to handle things all by myself.”
  • “You can’t be strong all the time. Sometimes you just need to be alone and let your tears out.”
  • “I always joke about being alone forever but I really do believe there isn’t someone out there for me.”
  • “You may feel lost and alone. But God knows where you are and has a good plan for your future.”
  • “I don’t know what it’s like to not have deep emotions, even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely.”
  • “I want someone to be afraid of losing me. No one has and I don’t think no one ever will.”
  • “Nobody knows about the little melt downs I have when I’m alone. They only know about the smiles and laughs I show them.”
  • “Your life will get better when you realize it’s better to be alone than to chase people who don’t really care about you.”
  • “It takes a strong person to remain single in a world that is accustomed to settling with anything just to say they have something.”
  • “Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more empowering or freeing than learning to like your own company.” ―Mandy Hale
  • “Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”
  • “I think it’s very healthy, to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone. You need to know HOW to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
  • “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.”
  • “The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do.”
  • “I like being alone. I have control over my own shit. Therefore, in order to win me over, your presence has to feel better than my solitude. You’re not competing with another person, you’re competing with my comfort zones.” ―Horacio Jones

Quotes about Being Alone And Feeling Lonely

  • “I restore myself when I’m alone.”
  • “Being alone is very difficult.” ―Yoko Ono
  • “I am not alone because loneliness is always with me.”
  • “Loneliness is an emotion and being alone can be a choice.”
  • “When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.” ―Keanu Reeves
  • “Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.” ―Charlie Chaplin
  • “One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” ―Thomas Jefferson
  • “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” ―Anthony Burgess
  • “The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.” ―Norman Cousins
  • “Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.” ―John Berger
  • “It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” ―George Washington
  • “Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone.” ―Arnold Rothstein
  • “The hardest walk you can make is alone. But it’s the walk that will make you stronger.”
  • “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
  • “Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”
  • “If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”
  • “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
  • “Loneliness is never crueler than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.” ―Germaine Greer
  • “When I’m alone, I think of so many things. But, when I have a chance to tell you, I go speechless.”
  • “Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship—but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.” ―Sylvia Plath
  • “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” ―Lois Lowry
  • “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
  • “Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realize your place in nature.” ―Dave Davies
  • “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
  • “Pain is when you’re slowly dying on the inside and you’re way too weak to speak about it. So you keep silent and suffer, alone.”
  • “When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.” ―Audrey Hepburn
  • “Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.” ―Kourtney Kardashian
  • “Being alone with your feelings is the worst because you have nowhere to run. They’re here, dancing in your mind and all you can do is handle.”
  • “Sometimes I feel like I just want to be alone. But what I actually want is someone to just hold me and tell me everything will be okay.”
  • “Some people can’t stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I’m a regular talking machine. It’s all or nothing for me.” ―Celine Dion
  • “But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”
  • “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
  • “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 Hathaway
  • “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” ―Kurt Vonnegut
  • “My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening – corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.” ―Emanuel Steward
  • “There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”
  • “Let me tell you this: 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.”
  • “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.”
  • “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
  • “If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.” ―Michael Josephson
  • “My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication—it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness—it is all that I have—and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.”
  • “I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.” ―Augusten Burroughs
  • “Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain….There was never a place for me in the scheme of things….I had become a living fantasy on a theme in dark, endless dirges….I made another world, and real men would enter it and they would never really get hurt at all in the vivid, unreal laws of the dream. I caused dreams which caused death. This is my crime.”

Quotes about Being Alone, But Not Lonely

  • “I’m learning a lot about myself being alone.”
  • “Those who fly solo have the strongest wings.”
  • “Happiness is being alone with your own thoughts.”
  • “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
  • “The sun is alone too. And he’s still shining.”
  • “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “If you want to be strong, learn to enjoy being alone.”
  • “Sometimes you just need to be alone and let your tears out.”
  • “I enjoy being alone, my soul is at peace in the silence.”
  • “It’s easy to stand with the crowd it takes courage to stand alone.”
  • “As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.” ―Sienna Miller
  • “Being alone has a power that very few people can handle.” ―Steven Aitchison
  • “Better to be with no one than to be with the wrong one.”
  • “Once you start loving your own presence, you stop chasing people in your life.”
  • “What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” ―Ellen Burstyn
  • “It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.” ―Marilyn Monroe
  • “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” ―Paul Tillich
  • “Sometimes, you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.”
  • “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” ―Albert Einstein
  • “Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.”
  • “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” ―Henry Rollins
  • “You smile, but you wanna cry. You talk, but you wanna be quiet. You pretend like you’re happy, but you aren’t.”

Being Alone Quotes and Sayings

  • “It is better to be alone than in bad company.” ―George Washington
  • “People who cannot bear to be alone are generally the worst company.” ―Albert Guino
  • “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ―Helen Keller
  • “I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.” ―Audrey Hepburn
  • “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” ―Mother Teresa
  • “It is far better to be alone than to wish you were.” ―Ann Landers
  • “Sometimes you just have to stand alone to make sure you still can.” ―Unknown Author
  • “All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.” ―Jean De La Bruyere
  • “And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.” ―L.M. Montgomery
  • “When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.” ―Ronald Anthony
  • “Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.” ―Thomas Browne
  • “Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.” ―Elizabeth Gilbert
  • “I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was as companionable as solitude.” ―Henry David Thoreau
  • “Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” ―Dag Hammarskjold
  • “Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.” ―Octavio Paz
  • “Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.” ―Wayne Cordeiro
  • “The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” ―Justin Timberlake
  • “The trouble is not really in being alone, it’s being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don’t you think?”
  • “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.”
  • “People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.” ―Kim Culbertson
  • “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
  • “Being isolated at times doesn’t always mean that you want to distance yourself from others; it simply means that you need some space to see things clearly.” ―Wazim Shaw
  • “Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.” ―Abdul Kalam
  • “I have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I’m really scared of being alone; because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman.” ―Claire Danes
  • “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
  • “Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your own presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.” ―Alice Koller
  • “A man can be himself alone so long as he is alone 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 Schopenhaur
  • “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” ―Pearl S. Buck