50 Best Alone Quotes to Stop Feeling Lonely – Inspire Quotes

Best Alone Quotes

  • “I restore myself when I’m alone.”
  • “I like to be alone. But I hate being lonely.”
  • “Sometimes it’s better to be alone. Nobody can hurt you.”
  • “Being alone has a power that very few people can handle.”
  • “Standing alone is better than standing with people who don’t value you.”
  • “I don’t know what else to do when I’m alone. I always think of you.”
  • “Leave me alone. I’m sick of your games. Stop it. Don’t mess with me anymore.”
  • “I’m learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I’m doing.” ―Chantal Kreviazuk
  • “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
  • “Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone.” ―Arnold Rothstein
  • “The hardest walk you can make is alone. But it’s the walk that will make you stronger.”
  • “Never say you are alone for you are not alone, your God and your genius is within.”
  • “Sometimes, you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.”
  • “Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.” ―Elizabeth Gilbert
  • “He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.” ―Patrick Süskind
  • “I want someone to be afraid of losing me. No one has and I don’t think no one ever will.”
  • “The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” ―Justin Timberlake
  • “Pain is when you’re slowly dying on the inside and you’re way too weak to speak about it. So you keep silent and suffer, alone”
  • “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
  • “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

Being Alone Quotes

  • “Being alone is more painful than getting hurt.”
  • “As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.” ―Sienna Miller
  • “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with.”
  • “As for now I’m gonna hear the saddest songs and sit alone and wonder.”
  • “Sometimes you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.”
  • “Standing alone doesn’t mean I am alone. It means I’m strong enough to handle things all by myself.”
  • “You can’t be strong all the time. Sometimes you just need to be alone and let your tears out.”
  • “You may feel lost and alone. But God knows where you are and has a good plan for your future.”
  • “If you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.” ―Richard Yates
  • “Some people can’t stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I’m a regular talking machine. It’s all or nothing for me.” ―Celine Dion
  • “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
  • “I think it’s very healthy, to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone. You need to know HOW to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
  • “Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.” ―Virginia Woolf
  • “Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different… in the end, it has made me the happiest.” ―Lindsey Stirling

Alone Time Quotes

  • “When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.” ―Keanu Reeves
  • “Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.” ―Charlie Chaplin
  • “Sometimes I just want to disappear and see if anyone would miss me.”
  • “To be alone is to be different and to be different is to be alone.”
  • “There are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.”
  • “When I’m alone, I think of so many things. But, when I have a chance to tell you, I go speechless.”
  • “I finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.” ―Whitney Houston
  • “Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.” ―Dave Davies
  • “The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” ―Justin Timberlake
  • “Your life will get better when you realize it’s better to be alone than to chase people who don’t really care about you.”
  • “Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more empowering or freeing than learning to like your own company.” ―Mandy Hale
  • “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.”
  • “I secretly enjoy being alone – hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes really enjoy being as alone as possible.” ―Josh Zuckerman
  • “There’s a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I’ve got to see my friends ’cause I’m too content being by myself.” ―Drew Barrymore

Alone Quotes and Sayings

  • “Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” ―Pablo Picasso
  • “Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.” ―Lorraine Hansberry
  • “It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.” ―Marilyn Monroe
  • “I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
  • “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” ―Mother Teresa
  • “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” ―Wayne Dyer
  • “If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.” ―Jules Renard
  • “Sometimes its better to be alone, no one can hurt you that way.” ―Tinku Razoria
  • “What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” ―Ellen Burstyn
  • “My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” ―Warsan Shire
  • “All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.” ―Blaise Pascal
  • “When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.” ―Ronald Anthony
  • “I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” ―Henry David Thoreau
  • “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” ―Albert Einstein
  • “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” ―Henry Rollins
  • “The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.”
  • “Don’t feel alone, because there is always someone out there who loves you more than you can imagine.” ―Anurag Prakash Ray
  • “Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.” ―Mandy Hale
  • “In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ―Rollo May
  • “We’re born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
  • “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.” ―Anne Hathaway
  • “I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.” ―Robin Williams
  • “It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.” ―K.T. Jong
  • “There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.” ―Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • “If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.” ―Michael Josephson
  • “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.” ―Joshua Slocum