80 Sad Lonely Quotes that You Should Read!

Quotes About Being Sad and Lonely

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• “I have done things that are memorable to me. Some of them had brought sadness instantly to me, and others happiness. But I wished I had not made them in the first place, even more for the joyful ones. For they bring pain in me, as what have had happened there will be a memory, and will always stay as one. We can never relive those times, and that is what's haunting me, and brings pain in me...”― Anonymous

• “People are just so mean for no reason.”― Rebecca David

• “She closed her eyes. She wasn't sure if it was sleep that waited for her there or simply the darkness on the inside of her eyelids. She retreated into that blank darkness and wondered how it could feel so horrible to feel nothing at all.”― Shane Arbuthnott, Terra Nova

• “You have got very sad eyes," she told me. And I just smiled.”― Avijeet Das

• “Perhaps history had dwindled away. Their lives, Lydia’s and Silas’s, the whole country’s, had become ordinary things. Not worth recording any longer, not worth the few precious moments of her busy day.”― Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit

• “Missed tests, deadlines, assignments – got late, stopped brushing hair and teeth … didn’t even get out of bed for days. Not a single ping on my mobile to ask if I were okay.”― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

• “There were moments of intense pain & utter darkness that I wanted to end it all. The only thing I wanted was not to live.”― Lala Agni, I JUST WANT YOU TO REMEMBER: A Story About The Eternal Love Of Twin Flames And So Much More

• “Some losses never heal you just learn to carry the burden and shed a tear every now and then”― Tina Gayle

• “Between the shadows of the earth and the dark depths of the sky, human life lay slumbering, with all its unsolved puzzles.”― Theodor Storm, Immensee

• “paradise seemed further away than India, but Hell had become a bit closer”― V.S. Naipaul

• “If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.”― A. C. Grayling

• “She remembered the days when they'd been each other's everything, when just being together was enough. When she believed their love could conquer the world. How long had it been since Michael had said her name in that special way, when they'd talked all night about their dreams and their future?”― Dominique Wilson, That Devil's Madness

• “No one wants to be alone too often. If they do they've been disappointed too much, they're all lonely.”― Brooklyn Wood

• “He would not want to sound like a haunted man; he would not want to sound as though he was calling from a welfare hotel, years too late, to say Yes, that was a baby we had together, it would have been a baby. For he could not help now but recall the doctor explaining about that child, a boy, who had appeared so mysteriously perfect in the ultrasound. Transparent, he had looked, and gelatinous, all soft head and quick heart; but he would have, in being born, broken every bone in his body.”― Gish Jen, Who's Irish?: Stories

• “Life wouldn't be fun if there was no sadness.”― Harsh Dubey

• “Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend... He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.”― Lauren Cagliola Green, Home

• “As sad as I so often was, and I was often overwhelmed with sadness, I never admitted it, and I don’t recall ever having said aloud that I was sad. I tried not to think about it, about all the sad things, because I had this feeling that if I started to think about it, that was all I would ever think of again. I often had a nightmare of falling down into a deep dark well that I could never climb out of. But then there was the other part of me that honestly believed I wasn’t sad at all, and I had little compassion for those who dwelled in sadness. Strange how that works. You would think that it would be the other way around.”― John Tuohy, No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care.

Sad Lonely Quotes About Life 

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• “And in the end all I learned was how to be strong… Alone.”

• “It’s easy to stand with the crowd it takes courage to stand alone”

• “I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.”

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

• “Standing alone is better than standing with people who don’t value you.”

• “You smile, but you wanna cry. You talk, but you wanna be quiet. You pretend like you’re happy, but you aren’t.”

• “Standing alone doesn’t mean I am alone. It means I’m strong enough to handle things all by myself.”

• “You may feel lost and alone. But God knows where you are and has a good plan for your future.”

• “As for now I’m gonna hear the saddest songs and sit alone and wonder.”

• “Sometimes life is too hard to be alone and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”

• “Nobody knows about the little melt downs I have when I’m alone. They only know about the smiles and laughs I show them.”

• “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.”

• “Never say you are alone for you are not alone, your God and your genius is within.”

• “I’m falling apart right in front of your eyes but you don’t even see me.”

• “It takes a strong person to remain single in a world that is accustomed to settling with anything just to say they have something.”

• “No, I may not be physically alone. But mentally there is no one insight.”

• “Leave me alone. I’m sick of your games. Stop it. Don’t mess with me anymore.”

• “You can’t be strong all the time. Sometimes you just need to be alone and let your tears out.”

• “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with.”

• “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.”

Sad Quotes About Being Lonely

More about sad lonely quotes:

• “To be alone is to be different and to be different is to be alone.”

• “I like being alone. I have control over my own shit. Therefore, in order to win me over, your presence has to feel better than my solitude. You’re not competing with another person, you’re competing with my comfort zones.” – Horacio Jones

• “And then I think that maybe I was designed to be alone.”

• “Sometimes I just want to disappear and see if anyone would miss me.”

• “When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.” – Conor Oberst

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Read on the following sad lonely quotes below.

• “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.”

• “Lonely is not being alone, it’s the feeling that no one cares.”

• “I don’t know what it’s like to not have deep emotions, even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely.”

• “I want to sleep until I feel better.”

• “Being alone is more painful than getting hurt.”

• “I like to be alone. But I hate being lonely.”

• “You’re not dead, but not alive either. You’re just a ghost with a beating heart.”

• “Sometimes you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.”

• “Sometimes it’s better to be alone. Nobody can hurt you.”

• “I want someone to be afraid of losing me. No one has and I don’t think no one ever will.”

• “She was drowning but nobody saw her struggle.”

• “If you could read my mind, you’d be in tears.”

• “That feeling when you’re not necessarily sad, but you just feel really empty.”

• “Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more empowering or freeing than learning to like your own company.” – Mandy Hale

• “Sometimes the worst place you can be is in your own head.”

• “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.”

• “Hello, darkness, my old friend. I have to talk with you, again.”

• “Sometimes you just need someone to tell you you’re not as terrible as you think you are.”

• “Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.” – Osho

• “Never fuck with someone who is not afraid to be alone. You will lose every single time.”

• “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”

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