35 Lonely Quotes By Famous People (2024)

In a world full of crowds, lonely people enjoy their own company. They stay away from people and do not let anyone hurt them. Their state of mind makes it difficult for them to create bonds and interact with people. Lonely people do not crave human contact. They find their light in the darkness. They are mysterious and keep things private. Loneliness causes people to feel empty and unwanted. Sometimes loneliness is due to some kind of inferiority complex. Those who lack interpersonal skills to develop and grow relations keep themselves away from others. Loners enjoy isolation and liberty. These lonely quotes are inspirational, you will understand from other people’s perspective what lonely means.

Loneliness not only hits the one who is alone but hits those who are in the crowd. Sometimes you need to be alone, it fills you with calmness and serenity to discover yourself. Isolation from others and being alone is far better than being in fake relationships or being in a crowd full of toxic people.

35 Lonely Quotes

1. “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.” Jodi Picoult
2. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” Johann Wolfgange von Goethe
3. “It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.” Mahatma Gandhi
4. “It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.” George Washington
   
   
5. “What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” Ellen Burstyn
6. “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.” Scott Fitzgerald
7. “A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” Mandy Hale
8. “You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody’s an expert on that one.” Theodore Sturgeon
9. “Loneliness is not lack of company; loneliness is lack of purpose .” Guillermo Maldonado
10. “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self .” May Sarton
    
    
11. “If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” Jean-Paul Sartre
12. “As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.” Sienna Miller
13. “For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate .” Albert Camus
14. “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” Arthur C. Clarke
15. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” Michel de Montaigne
16. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before .” Albert Einstein
17. “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
18. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” Maxwell Maltz
19. “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” Anthony Burgess
20. “We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding .” Rudyard Kipling
    
    
21. “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” Douglas Coupland
22. “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
23. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better .” Henry Rollins
24. “Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness .” Pedro Almodovar
25. “I never said, ‘I wantto be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference.” Greta Garbo
    
    
26. “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” Paul Tillich
27. “A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly, and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden .” Thomas Mann
28. “Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?” Haruki Murakami
29. “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 William
30. “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely .” Lorraine Hansberry
31. “Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.” Joss Whedon
32. “We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life .” Jenova Chen
33. “It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.” Marilyn Monroe
34. “Being alone has a power that very few people can handle.” Steven Aitchison
35. “Online communities are an expression of loneliness.” Joanne Harris