1. Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.

- Simon Van Booy

2. A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

- Henri Nouwen

3. 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.

- Aisha Shirley

4. Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed.

- Toba Beta

5. No one is ever alone and silence does not equate defeat.

- Joan Ambu

6. Eventually, we all end up alone.

- Ally Carter

7. We live in such a lonely world because most days we wake up and decide to marry no one but ourselves.

- Christopher Poindexter

8. I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

- Oscar Wilde

9. There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.

- Charles Bukowski

10. Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

11. I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

- Sylvia Plath

12. Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unnecessary as when you were alone.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

13. Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

- John Joseph Powell

14. Loneliness ends with love.

- Al Lerner

15. 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

16. Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.

- Eugene O’Neill

17. Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

- Margaret Thatcher

18. It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.

- Mahatma Gandhi

19. 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.

- Thema Davis

20. As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.

- Sienna Miller

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

- Richard Yates

22. If you are afraid of being lonely don’t try to be right.

- Jules Renard

23. There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.

- Toba Beta

24. If you smile when you are alone then you really mean it.

- Andy Rooney

25. Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

- Guillermo Maldonado

26. We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.

- Gail Honeyman

27. You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

- Darren Shan

28. If you are alone, you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion, you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct, and if you have more than one companion, you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

- Leonardo da Vinci

29. Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

- Erma Bombeck

30. Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you’ll realize you have no one to turn to.

- Soraya

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

- L.M. Montgomery

32. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves but I love me.

- Gene Simmons

33. Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It’s part of the human experience, and in a way brings us closer to all people.

- Juliette Fay

34. When you learn how to be alone you’ll discover the difference between alone and lonely.

- L.J. Vanier

35. The worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.

- Shyza Chaudhry

36. If you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

- Richard Yates

37. A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.

- Mandy Hale

38. Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

- Martha Beck

39. When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

- Conor Oberst

40. 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.

- Alice Koller

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

- Henry Rollins

42. If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

- Thomas Merton

43. Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.

- Robert Tew

44. Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

- Haruki Murakami

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

- Lorraine Hansberry

46. 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.

- Celine Dion

47. Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness.

- Janet Fitch

48. 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?

49. 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

50. Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

- Pearl S. Buck

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

- Justin Timberlake

52. To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone together. The only time you are not alone is when you forget yourself and reach out in love.

- Vera Nazarian

53. 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

54. The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

- Charleton Heston

55. 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

56. We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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

- Audrey Hepburn

58. There is a certain strength in being alone.

- Heather Duffy Stone

59. All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

- Jean de La Bruyère

60. The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

61. It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

- Marilyn Monroe

62. If one’s different one’s bound to be lonely.

- Aldous Huxley

63. It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

- Joel Osteen

64. Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Douglas Coupland

66. Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

- Mandy Hale

67. My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

- Khalil Gibran

68. By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.

- George herbert

69. The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

- Mary Balogh

70. You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

- Phil McGraw

71. The only way to survive is to admit you are on your own, learn to make your own decisions, and trust your judgement.

- Robert Greene

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

- Mandy Hale

73. Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

- Paul Tillich

74. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

- Henry David Thoreau

75. When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

- Ronald Anthony Cross

76. I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time.

- Henry Rollins

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

- M.W Poetry

78. All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

- Blaise Pascal

79. All these people moving through life, all around me, and no one, not a single person, knows what I’m going through.

- Lee Thompson

80. It’s only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.

- Mizu Sahara

81. Being alone and actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

- Kourtney Kardashian

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

- Maya Angelou

83. 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 Williams, Worlds Greatest Dad

84. Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

- Joss Whedon

85. Pray that your loneliness may spur into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

- Dag Hammarskjold

86. I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.

- Julie Metz

87. Find company within yourself and you’ll never spend a day alone.

- Connor Chalfant

88. When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

- Louis L’Amour

89. When the world makes me feel like I am alone, love reminds me otherwise.

- Steve Maraboli

90. For fear you will be alone, you do so many things that aren’t you at all.

- Richard Brautigan

91. I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

92. We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

- Albert Schweitzer

93. Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

- Anthony Burgess

94. When I get lonely these days, I think: So Be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

95. Even in the loneliest moments I have been there for myself.

- Sanober Khan

96. It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.

- George Washington

97. Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

- Paul Tillich

98. 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

99. This world that I live in is empty and cold. The loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

- Waylon Jennings, I Tremble for You

100. There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one’s.

- Gregory Maguire

101. Yes there is joy fulfillment and companionship—but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.

- Sylvia Plath

102. The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

103. The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

- Michel de Montaigne

104. I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it’s good for me

- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

105. 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

106. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

- Mother Teresa

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

- Ellen Burstyn?

108. Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

- Helen Keller

109. Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice-cold and lonely as the North Pole.

- Vicki Baum

110. I’m not much but I’m all I have.

- Philip K. Dick

111. If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

- Sharon Salzberg

112. Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

- Orison Swett Marden

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

- Ellen Burstyn?

114. Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.

- Marty Rubin

115. Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

- Germaine Greer

116. People may still feel lonely even among the crowd.

- Toba Beta

117. 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

118. You’ll end up living a lonely life if you’re waiting around for perfect.

- Samantha Young

119. Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

- Charlotte Eriksson, You’re Doing Just Fine

120. If you’re lonely when you’re alone you’re in bad company.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

121. My inspirations are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

- Enrique Iglesias

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

- Amit Ray

123. The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

- Andy Rooney?

124. I’ve noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

- Paolo Coelho

125. One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it, and some people can’t.

- Kyrie Irving

126. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

- Mitch Albom

127. The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

- Deb Caletti

128. I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

- Yousuf Karsh

129. Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

- Wendell Berry

130. Being alone has a power that very few people can handle.

- Steven Aitchison

131. There are two kinds of loneliness: one you feel you are all alone; the other you feel in a crowded room, when you realize you are the only person who knows what it’s like to be you.

- Atticus