Phrases for when you feel alone, that will lift your spirits 🆙

A collection of phrases for when you feel lonely, which will help you cheer up and learn to manage loneliness.

Do you feel alone and isolated? Loneliness can creep into your life without you realizing it. It is often a gradual process that leaves you more and more alone. For most people, feeling alone is a great burden. As human beings, we are used to living in community and naturally seek meaningful interactions with other people. Perhaps we are not only looking for social interactions, but also a deep connection with kind and supportive people. To help you cheer yourself up and build beneficial habits, the following collection of phrases has been created for when you feel lonely.

Loneliness is usually associated with being physically alone. When we think of someone who is lonely, we imagine someone who is socially isolated. However, there is also another type of loneliness that describes people who feel lonely despite being surrounded by people.

"It is much better to be unhappy alone than unhappy in company"

~ Marilyn Monroe

Many people feel lonely and abandoned despite having a relationship and many friends. They may be surrounded by family, friends, and even colleagues, but lack someone they trust to provide emotional support. Therefore, feeling alone does not necessarily mean that there is no one around you. It simply means that we feel isolated and have no one to truly trust, someone who cares deeply about us.

Unlike isolation, loneliness is not necessarily wanted, so it can slowly lead us down a path of emotional pain and melancholy. The first step to change things is to have the courage to admit that you feel alone. The following phrases will help you make a change for the better.

90 phrases for when you feel alone

When you feel alone, it is important to understand that you are not alone. Millions of other people are experiencing similar difficulties and are facing the same challenges. Furthermore, some of the wisest and most inspiring people who have ever lived have faced feelings of extreme loneliness. Fortunately for all of us, these wonderful people have found amazing ways to meet their challenges. His ideas about feeling lonely are condensed in the following list of phrases for when you feel lonely, which will help you overcome loneliness.

Phrases for when you feel alone: 1 to 20

The more powerful and original a mind is, the more it will turn to the religion of solitude. ~ Aldous Huxley

Solitude adds beauty to life. It gives a special color to sunsets and makes the night air smell better. ~ Henry Rollins

If you learn to sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is... an opportunity to meet yourself, to learn how strong you are, to learn what you are truly capable of, to depend on yourself alone for your happiness... you will find that a little solitude goes a long way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful person. ~ mandy hal

Loneliness is the human condition. cultivate it. The way it slides into you allows the space of your soul to grow. Never expect to overcome loneliness. Never expect to find people who understand you, someone who fills that space. An intelligent and sensitive person is the exception, the great exception.

A lonely day is God's way of saying he wants to spend quality time with you. ~ criss jami

Introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I am never bored and only occasionally feel lonely. Regardless of the chaos that surrounds me, I know that I can always turn inward. ~ Susan Cain

I find it healthy to be alone most of the time. Being in company, even with the best, quickly wears down and dissipates. I like to be alone. I have never found the companion that was as companionable as loneliness. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The strongest men are the loneliest. ~ Henrik Ibsen

Loneliness gives birth to the original beauty, unknown and dangerous: poetry. But also the opposite: the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ~ Thomas Mann

I live in that solitude that is painful in my youth, but delightful in the years of maturity. ~ Albert Einstein

I had already discovered that it was not pleasant to be alone, so I kept myself company with my surroundings, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my insignificant self; but my books have always been my friends, let all else fail. ~ Joshua Slocum

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The soul that sees beauty sometimes walks alone. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. ~ mitch album

A man can be himself only while he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; because only when he is alone is he truly free. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Remember: the moment you feel lonely is the moment you most need to be alone. The cruelest irony of life. ~ Douglas coupland

Accept your loneliness and stay true to it, throughout your life. And then accept the moments when the void is filled, when it comes. But they have to come. You can't force them. ~ D.H. Lawrence

The most beautiful thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. ~ Michel de Montaigne

We have to become so alone, so completely alone, that we withdraw into ourselves. It is a way of suffering bitterly. But then our loneliness is overcome, we are no longer alone, because we discover that our deepest being is the spirit, which is God, the indivisible. ~ Hermann Hesse

You can't feel lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~ Wayne W. Dyer

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be faced and alleviated. These are the places (for me) where loneliness is told, looked down on, transfigured, treated. ~ David Foster Wallace

Phrases for when you feel alone: 21 to 40

I have to be alone very often. I would be very happy if you spent from Saturday night to Monday morning alone in my apartment. This is how I refuel. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Music was my refuge. I could crawl through the space between the notes and shrug my shoulders in loneliness. ~ Maya Angelou

I am stronger than depression and braver than loneliness and nothing will ever tire me. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Many people suffer from the fear of being alone and therefore do not meet at all. ~ mayo roll

All great and precious things are lonely. ~ John Steinbeck

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter the desert of our loneliness and change it with gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. ~ Henri JM Nouwen

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. ~ Paulo Coelho

If you are alone, you belong completely to yourself. If you are accompanied by only one companion, you are only half your own. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

My imagination works much better when I don't have to talk to people. ~ Patricia Highsmith

But your loneliness will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unknown circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I think it's good for people to spend time alone. It gives them the opportunity to discover who they are. ~ amy sedaris

When I feel lonely these days, I think: So be lonely, Liz. Learn to cope with loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with him for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

When you are surrounded by all these people, you can feel more alone than when you are alone. You can be in a big crowd, but if you don't feel like trusting anyone or talking to someone, you really feel alone. ~ Fiona Apple

I have never felt alone. I liked myself. They are the best form of entertainment I have. ~ Charles Bukowski

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm up, and passersby only see a wisp of smoke~ Vincent Van Gogh

True loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask to pretend! ~ Edith Wharton

But many of us seek out community just to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be lonely is essential in the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ~ bell hooks

Love your loneliness and try to sing with the pain it causes you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Take care of your loneliness. Take the train alone to places you've never been. ~ Eve Ensler

I was a man who lived by solitude; without her, he was like another man without food or water. Every day without solitude weakened me. I wasn't proud of my solitude, but I was addicted to it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. ~ Charles Bukowski

Phrases for when you feel alone: 41 to 60

Anyone who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. ~ Aristotle

We live, in fact, in a world hungry for solitude, silence and intimacy: and therefore hungry for meditation and true friendship. ~ CS Lewis

Because once alone, it is impossible to believe that it could have been otherwise. Solitude is an absolute discovery. ~ marilynne robinson

If you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be something you had to do alone. ~ ricardo yates

My happiness will remain in everything that God so generously surrounds human loneliness. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

It is easy in the world to live according to the world's opinion; in solitude it is easy to live according to our own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd maintains with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in your power to withdraw whenever you want. The perfect inner tranquility consists in the good order of the mind, the kingdom of oneself. ~ Marco Aurelio

To be open to creativity, one must have the ability to use solitude constructively. The fear of being alone must be overcome. ~ mayo roll

There is some strength in being alone. ~ duffy briar stone

Loneliness is the human condition. nurture it. The way it seeps into you allows your soul space to grow. ~ janet fitch

My loneliness is my treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the door I wouldn't jump, but oh how I sing in my gilded cage! ~ like byatt

I'd rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than curl up on a velvet cushion. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Save your free moments well. They are like diamonds in the rough. Throw them away and their value will never be known. Upgrade them and they will become the brightest gems in a lifetime. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't complain... Don't complain. Hard work. Spend more time alone. ~ Joan didion

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and over the years I have achieved it. It was cold. Oh cool enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast as the cold stillness of space in which stars revolve. ~

I worry about myself. The more lonely I am, the more friendless I am, the more insensitive I am, the more I respect myself.

Perhaps only people who are able to be together have that look of being alone in the universe. Others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the dough. ~ D.H. Lawrence

What should today's young people do with their lives? Many things, of course. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities where the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. ~ Kurt vonnegut

Some nights are made to reflect, or to savor solitude. ~ bright poppy

Don't think you can scare me by telling me I'm alone. France is alone. God is alone. And God's solitude is his strength. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Phrases for when you feel alone: 61 to 80

Many people are locked inside them like boxes, yet they would open up, unfold in a wonderful way, if only you were interested. ~ Sylvia Plath

Loneliness is something that has never bothered me because I have always had this terrible desire for solitude. ~ Charles Bukowski

There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all. ~ Toba Beta

Are you mad, little friend? Did you stay awake and worried? Well, don't worry... I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow and I will always be here to take care of you. ~ Charles M. Schulz

The only dangerous and unhealthy sorrows are the ones we carry in public to drown them out with noise. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what he tells you, it's not because he enjoys solitude. It is because they have already tried to blend in with the world and people continue to disappoint them. ~ Hoy Picoult

I need to be alone. I need to reflect on my shame and despair in solitude; I need the sun and the cobblestone streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. ~ Henry Miller

The secret of a good old age is simply a pact of honor with solitude. ~ Gabriel García Márquez

Staying alone is the most precious thing that can be asked of the modern world. ~ Anthony Burgess

The good thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. ~ jonathan troops

As far as intellectual work is concerned, it has now been established that great decisions in the field of thought and discoveries and solutions of epochal problems are only possible for an individual working alone. ~ Sigmund Freud

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, however long it lasts, he never feels lonely or bored. ~ criss jami

I'm not sorry. I like to be alone. ~ Daphne du maurier

To understand the world, you have to turn your back on it from time to time. ~ Albert Camus

Solitude is sometimes the best society. ~ John Milton

Solitude is a separation chosen to sharpen the soul. Isolation is what you want when you neglect it. ~ Wayne Cordeiro

One of the most important things that can be done on this earth is to let people know that they are not alone. ~ Shannon L.Aliso

I am now completely cured of seeking pleasure in society, both in the country and in the city. A reasonable man must find enough company in himself. ~ Emily Brontë

When the superficial tires me, it tires me so much that I need an abyss to rest. ~ Antonio Porchia

If you feel lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Phrases for when you feel alone: 81 to 100

Loneliness is okay, but you need someone to say that loneliness is okay. ~ Honoré de Balzac

We live as we dream - Alone. ~ Joseph conrad

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all. ~ Deb Caletti

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not only with my hands but also with my heart. ~ Tahereh Mafi

Rather, lonely people tend to feel lonely because they refuse to bear the psychic costs of being around other human beings. They are allergic to people. People influence them too much. ~ David Foster Wallace

Sometimes it is necessary to sit alone on the floor in a quiet room to hear your own voice and not let it be drowned out by the noise of others. ~ charlotte eriksson

My loneliness arose when men loudly praised my shortcomings and silently blamed my virtues. ~ Khalil Gibran

The problem is not really that of being alone, but that of feeling alone. You can feel lonely in a crowd, don't you think?

We have all known the long loneliness and have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. ~ Dorothy Day

From that moment on, the world has been yours to read. She would never feel lonely again, she would never miss her close friends. Her books became her friends and there was one for every mood. ~ Betty Smith