Quotes To Overcome Your Loneliness

Loneliness is not always being alone. It is a feeling that can overwhelm you even when you are sitting in the middle of a crowded room. It is a feeling inside of us and our environment sometimes does not help us overcome it. It is like a tide in the waves of life, one that can quickly become very difficult to ride.  

Studies prove that it is more dangerous to health to be socially alone than to smoke 15 cigarettes a day. Even in this time when the world has become our global village and everything and every person is just a click away, it is still much hard to communicate what we feel.

If you are tired of fighting this battle alone, these quotes here will make you feel that you are never truly alone. Indulge in the words to overcome your loneliness. If your loneliness has become too much to bear, it is okay to take some professional help. 

Gloomy Loneliness Quotes 

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering, and it’s all over much too soon

Woody Allen

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Anna Hathaway

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

Lois Lowry

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

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness

Albert Schweitzer

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved

Mother Teresa

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness

Norman Cousins

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony

Douglas Coupland

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying

Arthur C. Clarke

Yes, there is joy, fulfillment, and companionship, but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering

Sylvia Plath

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty

Pauline Phillips

Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you’ll realize you have no one to turn to

Soraya

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate

Germaine Greer

I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness

Hunter S. Thompson

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely

Gretchen Rubin

For fear, you will be alone, you do so many things that aren’t you at all

Richard Brautigan

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely

Charlotte Brontë

Hartening Loneliness Quotes 

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness

Maya Angelou

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self

May Sarton

Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself

Anonymous

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon

Woody Allen

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone

Ferdinand Marcos

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself

Michel de Montaigne

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not

Anna Neagle

All great and precious things are lonely

John Steinbeck

Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves, it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Joseph Conrad

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.

Douglas Coupland

A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone

Mandy Hale

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Bertrand Russell

Sometimes you have to stand alone just to make sure you still can

Anonymous

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut

Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself

Robert Tew

All great and precious things are lonely.

John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

Lyrics About Loneliness

You’re not alone. I’m awake and I’ve been thinking of you

Kygo

I‘m not the girl you‘re taking home. I keep dancing on my own

Robyn

Lonely, I’m so lonely, I have nobody to call my own

Akon

My shadow‘s the only one that walks beside me

Green Day

I’m not the girl you’re taking home. I keep dancing on my own

Robyn

It‘s a quarter after one, I‘m all alone and I need you now

Lady Antebellum

Can anybody hear me or am I talking to myself?

Simple Plan

Now I‘m all alone and my joys turned to moping, tell me here, where are you now that I need ya?

Jack Ü ft. Justin Bieber

Ah, look at all the lonely people

The Beatles

Is the only reason you‘re holding me tonight ‘cause we‘re scared to be lonely?

Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa

We’re happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time

Taylor Swift

Try to find my way back home to you, I‘m so alone. Nothing feels like home

Marshmello

Well, it’s down at the end of Lonely Street at the Heartbreak Hotel

Elvis Presley

Do you think about me when you‘re all alone? The things we used to do, we used to be?

Avicii & Nicky Romero

I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known

Green Day

Your memory remains, I breathe it closer. I swear that I still feel you near

Dash Berlin

Don’t wanna be all by myself anymore

Celine Dion

That silent sense of content that everyone gets just disappears soon as the sun sets

The Chainsmokers

Famous Movie Quotes About Loneliness 

There is nothing more lonely or terrifying than feeling unheard

House of Cards

Poor little guy. There he goes, without a friend in the world. Nobody to turn to.

Mouse in Dumbo 

Someday you’re gonna be all alone, so you need to figure out how to take care of yourself

The Queen’s Gambit

No, I belong here. Alone. Where I can be who I am without hurting anybody

Frozen

In the beginning, everyone is there, but then they forget

Grey’s Anatomy

This house is so full of people, it makes me sick! When I grow up and get married, I’m livin’ alone!

Home Alone 

I think loneliness probably kills more people than cancer

A Simple Favor

I think some company is overdue. I’ve started talking to the pictures on the walls.

Frozen

They judge me before they even know me. That’s why I’m better off alone

Shrek

I don’t know. I just… I was just tired of living alone in the garbage.

Wreck-It Ralph

6:30, dinner with me. I can’t cancel that again

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

They judge me before they even know me. That’s why I’m better off alone

Shrek

The journey’s a lonely one. So much more than we know

Kung Fu Panda

I know why you seek solitude. You suffer. I see it day by day. You sure you do not suffer needlessly?

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

People think I’m odd, so I know how it feels to be different, and I know how lonely that can be

Beauty and the Beast

Even if I wanted to go, my schedule wouldn’t allow it: 4:00, wallow in self-pity. 4:30, stare into the abyss

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

You can leave. I’ll remember you. I remember everyone that leaves

Lilo and Stitch

I used to have a roommate, but my mom moved to Florida

Ghostbusters II

How To Fight Loneliness 

There can be a lot of factors that contribute to your loneliness. However, whatever may be the cause,  loneliness can take a toll on your mental and physical health. A survey revealed that Gen Z, people aged between 18 and 22 are the loneliest among all the population. 

If you are trying to overcome loneliness, here are a few steps to help you deal with it. 

Accept The Feeling

The first step in overcoming anything is accepting its existence.  By accepting the way you feel, you will realize the impact it has on your life. Maybe you have recently experienced a big change or suffered from a loss. Talk to your friends and family and discuss how you feel. Sometimes putting your feelings into words brings a big change.

Do Not Let Social Media Control You

The world today is under the control of social media. It is like an addiction and nobody can seem to get enough of it. But people are not always what they show. Behind these screens, many of us are facing the same problems but we do not like to show that side. 

Don’t allow social media to control you. If you feel like you are feeling more lonely by using social media, it is time to log off and take a break.

Exercise Self-Love 

Self-care is the first step towards self-love. Do what you love the most, learn to say no, eat healthily and fall in love with yourself before loving someone else. 

Recap 

Millions of people suffer from loneliness but it is not something uncurable. There are many ways to overcome your loneliness. Having the right person by your side matters the most when it comes to fighting loneliness and sometimes you yourself are the right person. 

Recognizing how you feel is most vital in finding what strategy will help you the most. 

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