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

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
- Douglas Coupland

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
- Lois Lowry

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
- Charles M. Schulz

All great and precious things are lonely.
- John Steinbeck

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

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

Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
- Charles Bukowski

You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It's not normal. The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. It's a loop and you gotta do something to get out of it.
- Jim Shepard

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

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
- May Sarton

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

Loneliness breaks the spirit.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
- James A. Froude

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good.
- John Milton

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

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
- Dag Hammarskjold

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.
- Ronald Anthony

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
- T.S. Eliot