Feeling Lonely Quotes - Loneliness Quotes

Welcome to these Feeling Lonely Quotes about loneliness. It hurts to feel lonely. Let these quotes about being lonely help you to express your feelings and to find ways to break through the barrier of isolation.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

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Quotes about Being Lonely - Quotes about Loneliness

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa

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.
- Paul Tillich

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
- George Eliot

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
- Brendan Francis Behan

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
- Mason Cooley

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
- Judy Garland

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
- Martha Beck

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
- Doug Coupland

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
- Wayne Dyer

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
- Larry David

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
- Paul Theroux

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
- Jules Renard

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
- Amelia Earhart

Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa

Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
We are for the most part more lonely
when we go abroad among men
than when we stay in our chambers.
A man thinking or working is always alone,
let him be where he will.
- Henry David Thoreau

When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho

At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

Quotes to Inspire and Motivate when Feeling Lonely

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Forgiveness is the cleansing fire that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
We are for the most part more lonely
when we go abroad among men
than when we stay in our chambers.
A man thinking or working is always alone,
let him be where he will.
- Henry David Thoreau

You have not been abandoned.
You are never alone, except by your own choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room,
remember, never to say that you are alone,
for you are not alone, but God is within,
and your genius is within.
- Epictetus

The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau

There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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