Entrepreneurship can be a lonely journey. Many times, you’re the only one who believes in your idea enough to take the risk. And when things get tough, it’s easy to feel like you’re the only one going through them. That’s why it’s important to find inspiration in others who have been where you are. This compilation of lonely quotes is designed to do just that. Reading about how others have handled their loneliness and found success can help remind you that you’re not alone on this journey. So, if you’re feeling lonely, these quotes are for you.

1. My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished. — Walker Percy
3. Your mouth is a lonely place but I keep coming back. — Warsan Shire
4. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils. — William Wordsworth
5. Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely. — Umberto Eco
6. The worst feeling in life is not being lonely — it’s being forgotten by the one person you could never forget.
7. I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator. — Trudi Canavan
8. Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring. — William Butler Yeats
9. I feel lonely at times, but I don’t want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I’m not the type of person who just does things to do them. — Tom Cruise
10. I still feel immense love and loyalty to Steve. And I’ve got great kids, I’ve got a very full life, and while I’m lonely for Steve, I’m not a lonely person. — Terri Irwin
11. If you came to see the truth, the purity, it’s here inside a lonely heart. — Michael Jackson
12. Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight. — Roy Orbison
13. You will never be lonely if you love yourself enough — Steven Aitchison
14. People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them. — Theodore Zeldin
15. Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets. — William Faulkner
16. Won’t someone please answer my prayers before I’m old and gray. I’ve been lonely too long and all my family thinks I’m gay. — Rod Stewart
17. Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the north pole. — Vicki Baum
18. It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects. — Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
19. Two Homeless People In Love Are Happier Than A lonely Man Living Alone In His Castle — Ron Riccota
20. When the night falls, my lonely heart calls. — Whitney Houston
21. I grew up a dreamer, lonely, one foot on the earth, the other on the moon. — Philippe Lechermeier, The Secret Lives of Princesses
22. The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place. — Nancy B. Brewer, Garnet
23. I know too many people. I guess we’re both lonely. — Orson Welles
24. Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies. — N. T. Wright
25. I still feel immense love and loyalty to Steve. And I’ve got great kids, I’ve got a very full life, and while I’m lonely for Steve, I’m not a lonely person. — Terri Irwin
26. Sometime am feeling proud to have ma loneliness but, Sometime am so feeling lonely. — kamal parvez
27. I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely. — Tori Amos
28. I can’t really have any friends. It’s sad, really. It’s lonely. But that’s how I am. — Randy Moss
29. To be a human being means to be lonely.To go on becoming a person means exploring new modes of resting in our loneliness. — Robert Hobson
30. I feel lonely at times, but I don’t want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I’m not the type of person who just does things to do them. — Tom Cruise
31. Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets. — William Faulkner
32. How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone. — Vincent Van Gogh
33. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. — Tom Hanks
34. Success is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with; you’re just gonna end up lonely. — Selena Gomez
35. To be lonely is to have lost the enjoyed fellowship with God — Sunday Adelaja
36. Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared–an unbelievably real person. — M. Scott Peck
37. When the night falls, my lonely heart calls. — Whitney Houston
38. On the road, as a ‘rock star, ‘ there’s superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours–then you’re alone in your room and it’s lonely. — Melissa Etheridge
39. We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.We are not lost, because we chose to disappear. — Steven Wilson
40. Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths. — Ray Bradbury
41. She hadn’t realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not. — Rebecca Scherm, Unbecoming
42. When you’re feeling lonelyand no one is aroundRemember to look inside yourselfand a best friend will be found — Stephen Cosgrove, Maynard’s Mermaid
43. When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives — we also experience less of a soothing uplift from the positives.
44. It’s solitary drinking that makes drunkards. — Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
45. Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable. — Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
46. Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. — Tecumseh
47. It’s solitary drinking that makes drunkards. — Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
48. Sometime am feeling proud to have ma loneliness but, Sometime am so feeling lonely. — kamal parvez
49. He was so lonely that he laughed at himself. — L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs
50. Lonely, ain’t it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely. — Toni Morrison