75 lonely phrases: sad reflections for when you feel lonely

There are moments in life when for some reason we need to be alone, either by choice or because life has made us be alone. For some, these moments of loneliness are cause for absolute panic, for those who have learned to accompany themselves, it is an opportunity to learn more about ourselves.

The truth is that while we feel alone, somewhat isolated from the world and ultimately, in loneliness, thousands of ideas, thoughts and feelings go through our heads that we do not know how express. Fortunately, philosophers, artists, writers and thinkers have gone through it and left us their best loneliness phrases that we have selected for you.

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75 lonely phrases to express when we feel alone

We have compiled for you the best loneliness phrases written in our history, so that they accompany you and help you express your emotions in moments of loneliness.

1. I don't know about birds, I don't know the history of fire. But I think my loneliness should have wings.

We start with this beautiful poem by Alejandra Pizarnik about loneliness.

2. The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their world fall apart, and all they can do is stare.

The most difficult moments are those in which we see that everything collapses and we cannot do anything about it, it is there when we feel most alone. Loneliness phrase by F. Scott fitzgerald

3. Music was my refuge. I could slide into the spaces between the notes and curl my back at the loneliness.

Nothing better to face loneliness than artistic expressions, for Maya Angelou, music ..

4. To enjoy intimately and to love you need solitude, but to be successful you need to live in the world.

The writer under the synonym Stendhal, the one who went through life dazzled by beauty, assures that loneliness is a tool to love.

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5. Hell is all in this word: loneliness.

For Víctor Hugo, loneliness is the worst thing that can happen to a person.

6. In solitude, searching is a three-shift job.

Xavier Velasco gives us this phrase of loneliness and talks about the tripled weight of trying to get out of loneliness.

7. The worst thing about preserving memories is not the pain. It is the loneliness of pain. Memories must be shared.

Lois Lowry says that in lonely moments, memories hurt more because we can't share them, but for other people, memories can be the best company.

8. I feel lonely, but not all of them are enough. I don't know why some people fill in the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.

People are also mirrors of our own lives and while some make us feel better, others remind us of our loneliness, so says Anaïs Nin.

9. It is easy to live in the world according to the opinion of the world. It is easy to live in society according to your own opinion. But the great man is the one who in the midst of a crowd preserves with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

A very beautiful and different reflection is this one that Ralph Waldo Emerson makes about the independence that solitude gives us.

10. He loves your loneliness and endures the suffering it causes you.

Rainer Maria Rilke invites us to love our loneliness above all else.

11. He felt the loneliness of death that comes at the end of each day of life that one has wasted.

Normally when we are alone, we do nothing but reproach what was not, the lost time and think about what could be. In these moments we must stop thinking about the past and focus on what we do today with our loneliness. Phrase from "Paris was a party" by Ernest Hemingway.

12. We are all so close together and yet we are all dying of loneliness.

Albert Schweitzer speaks in this phrase of loneliness that being accompanied and surrounded by people can also be synonymous with loneliness.

13. All great and precious things are lonely.

John Steinbeck makes a beautiful comparison with the greatness of nature for strengthen the spirit in lonely moments.

14. Loneliness pricked my heart. The water he drank, even the air he breathed, came loaded with long, sharp-pointed needles. The corners of the pages of the book in my hand threatened me with a white flash like razor blades. At four in the morning, when all was quiet, I could hear the roots of my loneliness growing.

This is an excerpt from one of the books by the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. A few words that describe how lonely moments sometimes feel.

15. A warrior of light uses solitude, but is not used by it.

"The Manual of the Warrior of Light" by Paulo Coelho teaches us to use solitude to our advantage instead of succumbing to it.

16. There, in the center of that silence, he found not eternity, but the death of time, and a loneliness so deep that the word itself lost all meaning.

Beautiful words from the writer Toni Morrison in Ella Sula's book, which express what many of us feel when we are alone.

17. The eternal pursuit of the individual human being is to destroy his loneliness.

Norman Cousins ​​says that is what we came into the world for, to fight to end our loneliness.

18. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of not being loved.

This apt phrase from Mother Teresa of Calcutta is one of the lonely phrases that shows that we all need to feel loved and accompanied.

19. Pay attention: a lonely heart is not a heart.

Or at least, that's what the Spanish poet Antonio Machado thinks.

20. A person can feel lonely, even when many people love them.

Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who went into hiding during the Nazi holocaust, also wrote this phrase about loneliness in her diary.

21. We avert our gaze from our loneliness, from ourselves, and we cannot stand neither others nor ourselves, and others cannot stand us either.

Herta Müller gives us these words that explain what happens when we try not to accept our loneliness and hide from it and from ourselves.

22. There are two possibilities: that we are alone in the Universe, or that we are accompanied. Both are equally terrifying.

Arthur C. Clarke believes that It is just as scary to be alone or with someone, in terms of the grand universe of which we are a part.

23. If you feel lonely when you are alone, then you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre reminds us with this lonely phrase that we ourselves can be our worst or our best company.

24. Better to be alone than in bad company.

And this popular saying could not be missing from this list of loneliness phrases.

25. Loneliness is a consolation for a saddened soul, who hates those around her just as a wounded deer leaves its herd, to take refuge in a cave where it will ring or die.

Reflection on loneliness by Gibran Jalil Gibran

26. Loneliness is the most difficult custom but it is the only and legitimate mother, because in it is found not only love for what exists but also love for what does not exist.

Roberto Juarroz says that from loneliness comes true love for what we know and what we do not know. This is an excellent lonely phrase to reflect on.

27. Negative emotions such as loneliness, envy and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life: they are great signs that something has to change.

Gretchen Rubin makes this wonderful reflection on loneliness: we must see it as an indication of something we must change, a lesson to improve.

28. Loneliness is very beautiful... when you have someone to tell.

And this is the only way that Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer could make sense of loneliness.

29. Soledad: A moment of plenitude.

Loneliness can be a time of reflection, of having new ideas, of listening to ourselves and therefore, of fulfillment. Michel de Montaigne's phrase.

30. Listen to me now: look in your solitude a sleeping bee, which in her sleep makes her honey without her joy.

Beautiful phrase about the loneliness of Sara de Ibáñez.

31. Loneliness is anti-human and causes suffering, cancels the possibilities of evolution. You have to have a very powerful spirit to bear it.

Ricardo Garibay. The truth is that we are all brave and powerful, enough to learn from loneliness and emerge victorious from it.

32. Why, in general, is loneliness avoided? Because there are very few who find company with themselves.

Carlo Dossi tells us the absolute truth in this lonely phrase, what really scares us is being our own company.

33. Nothing makes us more lonely than our secrets.

Because when we have secrets we cannot share, we have to deal with it alone; that's what Paul Tournier refers to with this phrase.

34. Our great torment in life comes from the fact that we are alone and all our actions and efforts tend to flee from that loneliness.

Guy de Maupassant French writer, considers that our passage through life and what we do is it is to try not to be alone in this sentence about loneliness.

35. You have not left me so alone, that I am with me and it is enough for me, just as I have always been.

Concha Mendez talk about loneliness in a positive way, highlighting that she is her own company no matter who enters or leaves her life.

36. There is no loneliness higher, more cruel and closer than that of two bodies that love each other, their ivy confusing, their saliva and their dreams, their stunned breath, their bones and their death.

Luis Cardoza y Aragón talks about the loneliness that occurs in couples.

37. A man can be himself while he is alone; if you don't love solitude, you won't love freedom; because only when you are alone are you really free.

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer teaches us that it is in solitude that we learn to be free and that is why we must love it.

38. Loneliness is the empire of consciousness.

Another of the lonely phrases said by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer about his positive influence on our conscience.

39. Loneliness is admired and desired when it is not suffered, but the human need to share things is evident.

Carmen Martín Gaite talks about how humans always need to share, even when by our own decision we live in solitude and without suffering it.

40. Soledad asked you and loneliness you gave me, and this is the joy of my sad existence.

Excerpt from a poem by the Guatemalan César Brañas about loneliness.

41. All human beings look for a place where no one can attack us, and that happens in solitude.

Alicia Giménez Bartlett talks about our human need to only embrace what gives us joy and not allow ourselves to be vulnerable to others, for her, this is obtained in solitude.

42. Loneliness is what I like least about life. What worries me the most is just being alone with no someone to care for or someone to care for me.

Famous actress Anne Hathaway also spoke about her great fear of loneliness: that we need each other.

43. People who live alone always have something on their mind that they would be willing to share.

This lonely phrase by Anton Chekhov can be an invitation to look with compassion on those we know are alone.

44. The worst loneliness there is is the realization that people are idiots.

Maybe we would not say idiot, but when you realize that your level of consciousness is very different from the people around you. Loneliness phrase by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.

45. No one ever discovers the depths of their own loneliness.

Georges Bernanos considers that we do not inquire enough in our loneliness.

46. We are all predestined for loneliness, but there are those who reach it without it being their due and then it is very hard to accept it as it should.

A phrase about loneliness from the book "The Shipwreck File" by Luis Mateo Díez, to reflect on the moment in which she reaches us.

47. Pray that your loneliness can prompt you to find something to live for, big enough to die for.

Former United Nations Secretary Dag Hammarskjold makes a very successful and positive pun on loneliness.

48. A man's worth is measured by the amount of loneliness he can bear.

Because for many, coping with loneliness is only for the brave. Friedrich Nietzsche phrase.

49. I am someone alone. Nobody on the street.

This phrase from the Spanish poet Gabriel Celaya explains in his short words the feeling of loneliness that occurs when we are surrounded by people and at the same time very alone.

50. But the silence is true. That is why I write. I am alone and I write. No, I'm not alone. There is someone here who is trembling.

Another of the phrases of loneliness of the Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik in which she reflects on her own loneliness, when it is seen and not seen in it.

51. I had felt lonely for years: but now I discovered that it took two to truly feel what loneliness is.

This phrase from "The Memories" by David Foenkinos expresses how loneliness feels when we have already had someone by our side.

52. Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what he tells you, it is not because he enjoys solitude. It's because they've tried to blend in with the world before, and people keep letting them down.

Jodi Picoult, on the other hand, considers that it is the world that disappoints lonely people and that is why they prefer to be alone. Do you agree?

53. Writing is an antidote to loneliness.

Steven Berkoff and many other people have talked about how writing and reading are the great escape from loneliness.

54. Loneliness is to the spirit what diet is to the body.

It does not help cleanse your spirit, remove excess weight, and be healthier. Phrase about the solitude of the Marquis de Vauvenargues.

55. My problem with loneliness is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.

Joseph Heller reflects on his own loneliness and realizes that it is oneself and not others who can cure loneliness.

56. What a hard drug is the loneliness that does not let you keep your eyes fixed on the television or the world under your feet.

Fito Paez, the Argentine singer also wrote about the weight of loneliness in life.

57. Does anyone know what true loneliness is? It has nothing to do with the conventional sense of the word: it is naked terror. Even before the lonely he appears with a mask. Even the most miserable of the outcasts embrace some memory or some illusion.

Joseph Conrad makes this interesting reflection on what loneliness truly is and if we are actually able to recognize it.

58. When we are most alone is when we embrace the loneliness of the other.

This lonely phrase written by Mitch Albom to reflect on whether we are living our loneliness or someone else's.

59. Love, how many roads to reach a kiss, what wandering loneliness to your company!

And we could not leave out a phrase of loneliness that refers to the love of a couple like this, by Pablo Neruda.

60. Nothing has happened but loneliness, perhaps too daily to relate.

Emily Dickinson also wrote about loneliness.

61. Remember: The moment you feel lonely is the moment you most need to be with yourself, the cruelest irony in life.

This wonderful phrase of loneliness by Douglas Coupland teaches us that the only way to cope with loneliness is to be with ourselves, on our side, as ironic as it sounds.

62. I paint self-portraits because I am alone a lot.

This is how Frida Kahlo justifies her art, but it could also be correct to say that more than alone, she is in her own company.

63. Loneliness is sometimes the best company, and a short retreat brings a sweet return.

Because loneliness is a feeling that is lived in moments to reconnect with ourselves and then return to the world. John Milton's loneliness phrase.

64. We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.

Loneliness is also part of destiny, a beautiful reflection on the loneliness of Cécile de France.

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65. The happiest of all lives is busy loneliness.

This is how Voltaire considers that we live with loneliness.

66. There is a loneliness liable to rock. Arms crossed, knees raised; maintain this movement, unlike that of a boat, serene and contains the rocking chair. It's something inside... Tightly wrapped like fur. And there is a loneliness that wanders. The swaying fails to retain it. Has a life of its own. It is a dry, expansive thing that makes the sound of one's feet leaving seem to come from a distant place.

Beautiful words from the book "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, in which she reflects on two types of loneliness that we can feel, and she describes very eloquently with her words how we feel them.

67. When you are in your bedroom at night, even when the doors are closed and the light is off, do not say that you are alone: ​​you are never alone.

The truth is that we have a whole universe that always accompanies us, that is what Epictetus was referring to with this phrase about loneliness.

68. I want to be able to be alone, to find it nurturing, not just waiting.

This is the lesson that all we must learn, be able to be alone, live with ourselves. Quote by writer Susan Sontag.

69. The eagle flies alone; the crow in flocks. The fool needs company and the wise need solitude.

This phrase of loneliness by Friedrich Rückert shows us another vision of loneliness, in which sometimes we need and decide to be alone to find our greatness.

70. I live in complete solitude, but I don't feel alone.

This is how we should feel when we are alone. Phrase from the book "1Q84" by Haruki Murakami

71. There is no other true loneliness than inner loneliness.

Loneliness phrase from the book "Seeds of Contemplation" by Thomas Merton and talks about true loneliness, which is when we abandon ourselves.

72. My peers, lately, have found companionship through intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to fool my loneliness - it is all I have - and when the drugs and alcohol wear off, it will be all my peers have too.

Franz Kafka prefers to embrace his loneliness than to disguise it as others do, to meet her again when the effect of the disguise wears off.

73. In solitude, no one escapes the memories.

Because there is nothing or no one who can take away our memories, we live in them, especially in moments of loneliness. Beautiful phrase about the loneliness of the author of the little prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

74. The connection is life; disconnection, death.

Because connecting with other people makes us happy, that's why moments of loneliness are so difficult for us.

75. I just feel that I am terribly alone, and yet because I know that someone, somewhere, is experiencing the same thing as me, I have the impression that I am not alone. I am unable to tell if that is a good or bad thing. I just observe. I just feel.

We all accompany each other in the certainty that there are more people who feel alone. This phrase from the book "Memories of a dead end" by Banana Yoshimoto is an excellent reminder of this, that in solitude we are also all together.

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