120 Lone Quotes Make Us Think Being Alone isn't So Bad

Lone Quotes – We hate the moment lone or alone right. Lonely moments in life make us feel very lonely and like someone who no one accepts and loves us.

Being alone makes us feel that something is missing and lacking in ourselves.

Many lone moments are expressed in daily life, for example lonesome because of our need to calm down, namely the example of introverted children who know lone because we really feel that we have no one with or bonded with us at this time.

In lone moments full of intuition and feelings, we often describe lone as moments of sadness in everyday life.

Even though, it is not only a form of sadness left and no friends, there is a lone side that is taken by someone as a form of seeking peace and also one’s own happiness.

Seeing the many lone moments described, we will share a few words in quotes that describe the feelings, connection, and intuition of the word lone itself which means itself in everyday life.

Itself does not have to mean loneliness and sadness, but it can also be seen as a form of seeking peace and one’s identity which will be summarized in some of the quotes below.

The following 120 lone quotes make us think clearly and also inspire new words from various quotes that reflect our own moments.

Lone Quotes Make Us Think Being Alone isn’t So Bad

1. “Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.” – Anna Neagle

2. “What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” – George Eliot

3. “No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.” – Georges Bernanos

4. “Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.” – Pedro Almodovar

5. “We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.” – Jenova Chen

6. “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” – Paul Tillich

7. “Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us loneliness is one of them.” – Laurie Graham

8. “Maybe true love isn’t out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.” – Roxane Gay

9. “Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.” – C. S. Lewis

10. “I don’t fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.” – Mary Roach

11. “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” – Douglas Coupland

12. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” – Maya Angelou

13. “All great and precious things are lonely.” – John Steinbeck

14. “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. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

15. “Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.” – Janet Fitch

16. “If you are afraid of being lonely don’t try to be right.” – Jules Renard

17. “If one’s different one’s bound to be lonely.” – Aldous Huxley

18. “I’m not much but I’m all I have.” – Philip K. Dick

19. “If you smile when you are alone then you really mean it.” – Andy Rooney

20. “What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” -Ellen Burstyn

21. “Sometimes I think that my own company is more suitable for me than if I were around others. Because of the person that I am.” – Kyle Labe

22. “I’m not much but I’m all I have.” – Philip K Dick

23. “A broken relationship can make you feel more lonely than when you were single.” – PictureQuotes.com

24. “Find company within yourself and you’ll never spend a day alone. Find love within yourself and you’ll never have a lonely day.” – Connor Chalfant

25. “There’s nothing abnormal about loneliness.” – Paula Stokes

26. “If you want to miss your crown follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself.” – Israelmore Ayivor

27. “I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves but I love me.” – Gene Simmons

28. “My inspirations are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.” – Enrique Iglesias

29. “Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that’s all I need. I’m perfectly lonely.” – John Mayer

30. “The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.” – Henrik Ibsen

31. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” – Mother Teresa

32. “We live as we dream alone.” – Joseph Conrad

33. “sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love” – Gabriel García Márquez

34. “I feel too much. That’s what’s going on.’ ‘Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?’ ‘My insides don’t match up with my outsides.’ ‘Do anyone’s insides and outsides match up?’ ‘I don’t know. I’m only me.’ ‘Maybe that’s what a person’s personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.’ ‘But it’s worse for me.’ ‘I wonder if everyone thinks it’s worse for him.’ ‘Probably. But it really is worse for me.” – Jonathan Safran Foer

35. “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, Dry

36. “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.” – George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

37. “God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of “parties” with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter. they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. 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 Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

38. “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.” – Simone de Beauvoir

39. “When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.” – Fiona Apple

40. “I realize for the first time how very lonely I’ve been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.” – Suzanne Collins

41. “Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for great enough to die for.” – Dag Hammarskjold

42. “If a man cannot understand the beauty of life it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.” – Criss Jami

43. “Life is full of misery loneliness and suffering—and it’s all over much too soon.” – Woody Allen

44. “My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

45. “When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.” – Ronald Anthony Cross

46. “If you’re lonely when you’re alone you’re in bad company.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

47. “Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.” – Germaine Greer

48. “We live as we dream–alone.“ -Joseph Conrad

49. “Until you get comfortable with being alone you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.” – Mandy Hale

50. “Some nights are made for torture or reflection or the savoring of loneliness.” – Poppy Z. Brite

51. “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

52. “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” – May Sarton

53. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.” -Mother Theresa

54. “Depression on my left Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

55. “If you’re confident to walk alone nobody can stop you from reaching your goal.” – Unknown

56. “The best way to get approval is not to need it.” – Hugh MacLeod

57. “Do not think of loneliness as a disease as sometimes it can cure most of the diseases.” – Unknown

58. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

59. “A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” – Mandy Hale

60. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel de Montaigne

61. “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

62. “Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.” – Anonymous

63. “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

64. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins

65. “Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.” – Robert Tew

66. “Sometimes, you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.” – Anonymous

67. “Sometimes you have to stand alone. Just to make sure you still can.” – Anonymous

68. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

69. “Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” – Pearl Buck

70. “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

71. “It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.” – Joel Osteen

72. “Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.” – Guillermo Maldonado

73. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” – Gautama Buddha, Sayings Of Buddha

74. “You better go alone, than with negative people!” – Israelmore Ayivor

75. “For I desire the dark, the naked, and the lone.” – Charles Baudelaire

76. “If you want to miss your crown, follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself.” – Israelmore Ayivor

77. “To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.” – Amit Kalantri

78. “People do not recognize that you can do it when you merely tell them you can. Until they see you doing it, they won’t follow you. Leaders who are willing to go further alone today are those to be consulted for solutions tomorrow.” – Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Ladder

79. “If it’s true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.” – Criss Jami

80. “Loneliness can’t be seen. It’s a worse feeling that can only be felt, We experience a lots of feeling in our life but loneliness is such a feeling that kills us from inside yet we can’t help it. We only see our self being destroyed day by day, yet nothing to do.” – Debolina Bhawal

81. “In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”- Carl Sagan

82. “Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.” – Simon Van Booy

83. “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. The lines of self blur, and just for a wild, flickering moment you experience the miracle of other. And now you know the secret.” – Vera Nazarian

84. “There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one’s.” – Gregory Maguire

85. “Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed. People may still feel lonely even among the crowd.” – Toba Beta

86. “Loneliness Ends With Love.” – Al Lerner

87. “There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.” – Markus Zusak

88. “We’ve got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.” – Daphne du Maurier

89. “Half of the time I don’t know what they’re talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I’m a foreigner in the world and I don’t understand the language.” – Jean Webster

90. “Eventually, we all end up alone.” – Ally Carter

91. “It had filled my time – given me quiet, steadfast company with those characters, who did not exist and never would, but somehow made me feel less … alone.” – Sarah J. Maas

92. “He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.” – Marguerite Duras

93. “There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.” – Toba Beta

94. “I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.” – Julie Metz

95. “Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can’t help loving others.” – Natsuki Takaya

96. “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

97. “The worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.” – Shyza Chaudhry

98. “The sun loved me again when it saw that the stars would not abandon me.”- Jenim Dibie

99. “I don’t know why I still feel this pit in my stomach whenever I get a moment to think. I know what the pit is, too; I feel lonely. But I’m not alone, I keep telling myself.” – Pittacus Lore

100. “Forgiving, that’s what she is, and lonely. A person can forgive a lot if they need the company.” – Ali Land

101. “I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.” – Charles Bukowski

102. “There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

103. “Quien no lleva dentro un lobo no tiene por eso que ser feliz tampoco.” – Hermann Hesse

104. “Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for “pride”, allow it to go as a lone ranger!” – Israelmore Ayivor

105. “Scripture said that “pride goes before fall”. Just let pride go alone. Don’t go in its company, else fall pursues both of you!” – Israelmore Ayivor

106. “Don’t follow the crowd; you may be missing among them. Go solo. Sometimes, it is better to go alone.” – Israelmore Ayivor

107. “Extreme night shift work was lone working for up to eighteen hours per night for several nights on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea.” – Steven Magee

108. “If you are lonely, if you have got nobody around you, then turn your loneliness into something. That something should be worth to your loneliness.” – Cave Man

109. “There is a difference in the lone, who are free to walk as fast and far as they like, and the lonely, who cannot free themselves from what holds them, nor advance to what they seek.” – Brian S Woods

110. “All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.” – Jean de La Bruyère

111. “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.” – Anonymous

112. “Lonely hours is the best time of life, because it’s the only time I share my deepest secrets with the most trusted person in the world, MYSELF.” -Anonymous

113. “Life is ever easy for those who dream.” – Dandelion

114. “Never search your happiness in others, it will make you feel alone. Search it in yourself, you will feel happy even when you are left alone.” – Unknown

115. “It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” – George Washington

116. “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

117. “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

118. “The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.” – Mitch Albom

119. “Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.” – Martha Beck

120. “The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.” – Deb Caletti

Those are 120 Lone quotes that describe the strength and shared inspiration about loneliness that not all loneliness is bad.

Sometimes we need to think that we need to be alone to calm down and mind.