Quotes and Sayings about Solitude & Loneliness

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

You mean well, but leave me be
Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free

If we are all alone, then that's also somthing we have together.

Because nothing sucks more than feeling all alone, no matter how many people are around.

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

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.

We enter the world alone and we leave it alone. And everything that happens in between, we owe it to our self to find a little company. We need help. We need support. Otherwise we're in it by our self. Strangers, cut off from each other and we forget just how connect we all are. So instead we choose love. We choose life and for a moment we feel just a little bit less alone.

I really think everyone should be important enough to just one other person on this freaking planet to be fought for. Even me. And nobody’s fighting for me. So I’m done.

Some people carry a big bonfire in their souls, without having anyone to enjoy it.

Nobody likes to be alone, especially after a breakup. But that's when we discover who we really are and what we really want.

I love being on my own. No rules, no responsibilities... it's as good as it sounds.

Human beings are designed for many things, but loneliness isn't one of them.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Being alone really makes you realize all you got is yourself.

Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

Have you ever been alone in a crowded room?

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

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

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

Forty years ago, the Beatles asked the world a simple question: they wanted to know where all the lonely people came from. My latest theory is that a great many of the lonely people come from hospitals. More precisely, the surgical wing of hospitals. As surgeons, we ignore our own needs so we can meet our patients' needs. We ignore our friends and families so we can save other people's friends and families. Which means that, at the end of the day, all we really have is ourselves. And nothing in this world can make you feel more alone than that.

The strongest person is the person who isn't scared to be alone.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Being alone and being lonely are two entirely different things. You may be surrounded by others, but do you truly consider any of those people your friend?

I like being alone.
I have control over my own space.
Therefore, in order to win me over, your presence has to be better than my solitude.
You're not competing with another person, you are competing with my comfort zone.

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

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

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone

I can be surrounded by a sea of people and still feel all alone... then I think of you.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together. They like being solitary together.

What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? ... it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

Being alone is not synonymous with being lonely.

The key advantage of being a loner is you can change your strategy without having to discuss it with anyone. You can't hurt anyone's feelings. You don't have to worry about anyone. There are no lifelong friends who you still owe favours to. You can put all your energy into focusing on your goal. But the key disadvantage of being a loner is... you're alone. And what good is everything you achieve if you don't have anyone to share it with?

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

I actually enjoyed being alone, solitude allowed me to think about important things.

The loneliness does not come from the war. The war did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the war.

"Being alone," he says, "is not the same as being lonesome."

That's why; he's worried about how his life is turning out, and he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all.

It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

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.

I've exceeded my capacity for social interaction today!

The bare necessities of life will come to you.

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, surrounded by a-sholes.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.