66 Quotes About Being Alone

Feeling alone is an experience that transcends age, culture, and time. Whether it's the solitude of a quiet afternoon or the deep isolation felt in a crowded room, being alone can evoke a range of emotions from serenity to sadness. In the midst of this solitude, words often serve as a comforting companion, offering insights and reflections that resonate with our innermost feelings. That's why we've curated a collection of the top 66 quotes about being alone, each one capturing a unique perspective on solitude. Join us as we explore these poignant and thought-provoking quotes that speak to the heart of what it means to be alone.

1. “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

2. “From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in the window, interesting people and already a much bigger world.” - Julia Gregson

3. “One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.” - Julia Gregson

4. “Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

5. “I was lonely. I felt it deeply and permanently, that this state of being on my own might never disappear. But I welcomed the lonliness, which had everything to do with being anonymous. It's never lonliness that nibbles away at a person's insides, but not having room inside themselves to be comfortably alone.” - Rachel Sontag

6. “What does an introvert do when he's left alone? He stays alone.” - Jenni Ferrari-Adler

7. “I wish I didn't have to think about you. You wanted to impress me; well, I'm not impressed, I'm disgusted...You wanted to make damn good and sure I'd never be able to turn over in bed again without feeling that body beside me, not there but tangible, like a leg that's been cut off. Gone but the place still hurts.” - Margaret Atwood

8. “There I was, cold, isolated and desperate for something I knew I couldn't have. A solution. A remedy. Anything. ...I hated it. Alone and confused was the last place I wanted to be. Somehow I knew I deserved this.” - Brian Krans

9. “I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."(Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953)” - Audrey Hepburn

10. “I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!” - Khaled Hosseini

11. “Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.” - Stephen King

12. “What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.” - George Bernard Shaw

13. “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

14. “You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.” - Amit Ray

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

16. “In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone...” - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

17. “Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.” - Dean Koontz

18. “The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.)” - Samuel Beckett

19. “I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.” - Sarah Dessen

20. “Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.” - Joan Didion

21. “في تلك الليالي أيقنت بعد جلاء العناصر، أنني جئت إلى هذا الوجود وحيداً، و أنني سأسعى فرداً منقطعاً مهما تعددت الصحبة، و اتصلت الحميمية، و كل ما تؤججه الرفقة إنما لواذٌ وقتي، مرهونٌ بمده، له إبتداء و له إنتهاء شأن كافة المواقيت.” - جمال الغيطاني

22. “Never make the mistake of thinking you are alone — or inconsequential. Ignorance is voluntary and confusion is temporary. You see the world as-is, which is more than can be said for the vast populace.” - Rebecca McKinsey

23. “How terrible," said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.” - Christopher Paolini

24. “Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for her. And as a result, in the eyes of everyone, she had everything... and yet she always, always felt she had nothing. No one.” - C. JoyBell C.

25. “So ... will you stay with me until it's over? Please?" "Kaylee, I would do anything for the girl who granted my dying wish.” - Rachel Vincent

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

27. “Smile and the world smiles with you...Weep and you weep alone.” - Jazlyn Roehl

28. “Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.” - Samuel Beckett

29. “We can't talk about it, or I know she won't so I don't even try, but it's what goes unsaid between people tat builds up like masonry. You have to either knock the bricks out with other things, or let them keep stacking until eventually you are alone in a room.” - Justin Taylor

30. “I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if I had to choose one, I would rather be alone.” - Ted Michael

31. “She was completely alone, only the distant call of a bird telling her a world existed outside of her circle of pain.” - Roseanna White

32. “Now it was just the two of us, Max and me. And about a thousand other people around us.” - Kimberly Derting

33. “Suddenly this defeat.This rain.The blues gone grayAnd the browns gone grayAnd yellowA terrible amber.In the cold streetsYour warm body.In whatever roomYour warm body.Among all the peopleYour absenceThe people who are alwaysNot you.I have been easy with treesToo long.Too familiar with mountains.Joy has been a habit.NowSuddenlyThis rain.” - Jack Gilbert

34. “And a rock feels no pain;And an island never cries.” - Paul Simon

35. “I just want to feel like home. I just want Rosabelle. My other half. Where she was day, I was night. While I was earth, she was sky." -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears” - Chamera M. Sampson

36. “Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.” - Criss Jami

37. “Why did you take me down this road if you don't want to walk with me? Why do you exist all alone, when you could just talk to me?” - Sara Quin

38. “i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone” - James Dashner

39. “Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn't ever wish that on nobody.” - Steven J. Carroll

40. “I would always be lonely, but no more alone.” - Sonya Hartnett

41. “I am poppies in the fieldRed and cold I am sleeping alone and I am lightI am lightI am light” - Bella Betina

42. “I sit alone in a dead world. The wind blows hot and dry, and the dust gathers like particles of memory waiting to be swept away. I pray for forgetfulness, yet my memory remains strong, as does the outstretched arm of the oppressive air. It seems as if the wind has been there since the beginning of the nightmare. Sometimes loud and harsh, a thousand sharp needles scratching at my reddened skin. Sometimes a whisper, a curious sigh in the black of night, of words more frightening than pain. I know now the wind has been speaking to me. Only I couldn't understand because I was too scared. I am scared now as I write these words. Still, there is nothing else to do.” - Christopher Pike

43. “I'm all alone,fuming at myself,waving a great flagof failure.” - Emma Cameron

44. “If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.” - Maxwell Maltz

45. “The strongest men are the most alone.” - Ibsen

46. “We ain't alone in this universe.We just don't wanna be disturbed.” - Toba Beta

47. “I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.” - Jessica Sorensen

48. “I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.” - Anna Godbersen

49. “People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn't realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that.” - S.H. Kolee

50. “Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.” - Tahir Shah

51. “It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls.""There are always walls." I say.” - Lauren DeStefano

52. “After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.” - Jennifer E. Smith

53. “As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

54. “I think that is supposed to be good, that I get less from him but I feel worthless.” - Thalia Chaltas

55. “A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought." To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.” - John Steinbeck

56. “I’m tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything’s okay, tired of not being with him…” - Terra Elan McVoy

57. “I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn’t find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn’t decipher.” - Gloria Whelan

58. “I don’t care too much about talking, but I don’t like being alone.” - Ida Løkås

59. “A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your companions and the whole world creeps up quiet and you slowly realize you're going to stumble upon a secret place where everyone will jump out at you. And then, when you are the very last seeker, you start to wonder if you're the only person in the world. If the hiding place somehow sucked up the players and the last one has to decide to run away or get sucked up, too.” - Suzanne Palmieri

60. “No, he said, we are not alone. I have you, and you have me. And there is Arya and Nasuada and Orik, and many others besides who will help us along our way.” - Christopher Paolini

61. “The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.” - Stephen King

62. “alone doesn't mean lonely. It just means alone. It just means that for now, you're on your own, and that's not a terrible thing.” - Hemal Jhaveri

63. “There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.” - Steve V. Cypert

64. “If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.” - Paulo Coelho

65. “When the world makes me feel like I am alone, love reminds me otherwise.” - Steve Maraboli

66. “Vienatvė ieško kelionės draugo, neklausdama, kas jis. Kas to nesupranta, tas niekada nebuvo vienišas, o tik vienas.” - Erich Maria Remarque