Loneliness Can Be Bad You Know? Read Through These 15 Insightful Quotes About Loneliness and See What We mean

Loneliness never feels good. Life seems better when we have people around us whom we can share ideas with and have fun with. On the other hand, loneliness can sometimes be a medium through which we improve ourselves. It is during those quiet times that we have the most opportunity to reinvent ourselves because we are not distracted by others.

These 15 quotes below will help you see loneliness from another perspective and even use it to your advantage.

1. “A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” — Mandy Hale

2. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” — Michel de Montaigne

3. “People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.” ― Kim Culbertson

4. “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.” – Robin William

4. “Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.” – Robert Tew

5. “Sometimes you have to stand alone. Just to make sure you still can.” – Anonymous

6. “Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” —Pearl Buck

7. “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and 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

8. “Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.” – Guillermo Maldonado

9. “If you are alone, you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion, you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct, and if you have more than one companion, you will fall more deeply into the same plight.” – Leonardo da Vinci

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

11. “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

12. “The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” – Justin Timberlake

13. “When I get lonely these days, I think: So Be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

14. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ― Maya Angelou

15. “I’m not much but I’m all I have.” ― Philip K Dick

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