100+ Best Loner Quotes and Sayings (Images) – Inspire Quotes
Powerful Loner Quotes
“I’ve always been kind of a loner. Continue to be.” —Benjamin McKenzie
The best things have always come from the loneliest people.” —Adam Gnade
“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” —Jean-Paul Sartre
“Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude.” —Mary Shelle
Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.” —Dean Cavanagh
“I finally went where everyone goes and I realized I was never missing out.”— Meraaqi
“Solitude matters, and for some people, it is the air that they breathe.” —Susan Cain
“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.” —Erma Bombeck
“Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.” —Charles Bukowski
“Being a loner doesn’t make you lonely, but being lonely can make a loner” —Eiro Silvigne
“I was told I was dangerous…I asked why, and their response was “because you don’t need anyone.”
“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.” —Honoré de Balzac
“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”— Warsan Shire
“Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.” —Philip O Ceallaigh
“You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.” —Criss Jami
“They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does – when you can’t get enough of it.” —Anneli Rufus
“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.” —Rollo May
“I’d never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I’d grown used to it.” —Sebastian Faulks
“I’m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I’m happy. Not sad. I’m just shy and nervous.” —Clea DuVall
“…just because someone is a loner, it doesn’t mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn’t mean they’re lonely.” —Jason Daniel Chaplin
“I’m a popular loner. I know a lot of people and a lot of people know me but my circle is small and I’m usually by myself.”
“Reading requires a loner’s temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.” —David Samuels
“Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” —Paul Tillich
“One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there’s time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one’s satisfaction.” —Andrea Seigel
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel lonelier in a crowded room with boring people than I feel on my own.” —Henry Rollins
“I like weird people. The black sheep, the odd ducks, the rejects, the eccentrics, the loners, the lost and forgotten. More often than not, these people have the most beautiful souls.”
“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
“I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.” —Arthur Ashe
“We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.” —Anita Roddick
“A man can be himself alone so long as he is alone … 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
“I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.” —Bela Lugosi
“Deep in my heart I know I am a loner. I have tried to blend in with the world and be more sociable, but the more people I meet the more disappointed I am, so I’ve learned to enjoy myself, my family, and a few good friends.”
Famous Quotes About Being A Loner
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” ―Aristotle
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” ―Wayne W. Dyer
“The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.” ―Anneli Rufus
“Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.” —Vladimir Putin
“I like silence; I’m a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.” ―Karen Armstrong
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.” ―Anthony Burgess
“Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.” ―Deepak Chopra
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” ―Aldous Huxley
“I do feel like a loner but I think it’s because I look at things differently than other people.” ―Ricky Williams
“I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.” ―Marilynne Robinson
“I’m very much a loner. I don’t like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.” ―Anthony Hopkins
“But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.” ―William Manchester
“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.” ―Albert Einstein
“A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don’t have best friends or best buddies.” ―Michael Shannon
“I am completely a loner. In my head, I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.” ―Arundhati Roy
“It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.” ―Keanu Reeves
“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.” ―Albert Einstein
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.” —Anne Frank
“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, My Sister’s Keeper
“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.” —Nikola Tesla
“Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.” ―Criss Jami, Healology
“Most of the time I played by myself. Even then I was a loner, and I have stayed a loner all my life. It can make a man seem a little distant or even aloof – but it has helped pull me through some tight spots and hard times.” ―Roy Wilkins
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.” ―Anneli Rufus
“Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.” ―Anneli Rufus
“The hardest thing about being an outcast isn’t the love you don’t receive. It’s the love you long to give that nobody wants. After a while, it backs up into your system like stagnant water and turns toxic, poisoning your spirit. When this happens, you don’t have many choices available. You can become a bitter loner who goes through life being pissed off at the world; you can fester with rage until one day you murder your classmates. Or, you can find another outlet for your love, where it will be appreciated and maybe even returned.” ―Jodee Blanco
Short Loner Quotes
“Some walks you have to take alone.”
“It is impossible to ostracize a lone wolf.” —Joseph Annaruma
“Seclusion is the price of greatness.” —Paramahansa Yogananda
“I am never less alone than when alone.” —Cicero
“Isolation is a way to know ourselves.” —Franz Kafka
“Alone is what I have. Alone protects me.” —Sherlock
“Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.” —Laurence Sterne
“You only grow when you are alone.” —Paul Newman
“Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.” —Pauline Kael
“I am a loner, who does not want to feel lonely.”
“I enjoy being alone, my soul is at peace in the silence.”
“Be afraid of the quiet ones, they are the one who think…
“The best thinking has been done in solitude.” —Thomas A. Edison
“And in the end all I learned was how to be strong Alone.”
“I’m a loner. I like to be alone. I’m socially awkward.” —Guillermo Diaz
Loner Quotes and Sayings
“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” —Pablo Picasso
“The best things have always come from the loneliest people.” —Adam Gnade
“Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.” —Dean Cavanagh
“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.” —Franz Kafka
“People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.” —Katharine Hepburn
“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.” —Marcel Proust
“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt in solitude, where we are least alone.” —Lord Byron
“All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.” —Blaise Pascal
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.” —James Russell Lowell
“Don’t be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement.” —Walter Schloss
“Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.” —John Stuart Blackie
“A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The faint whisper of rain and running water was still there and it had the same tender note of solitude and perfection.” —Tove Jansson
“Every kind of creative work demands solitude, and being alone, constructively alone, is a prerequisite for every phase of the creative process.” —Barbara Powell
“I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague there was no sense talking about it.” —Hunter S Thompson