Powerful Loner Quotes to Embrace Solitude and Inner Strength

Do you sometimes feel like a loner? I think we all do from time to time. There is great value in learning to be comfortable with alone time. It can be a very enriching and important part of growth and self understanding. I hope you enjoy this list of Loner quotes.

Science has proven that spending time alone can help boost creativity and improve problem solving.

Albert Einstein was a famous loner who understood the value of Alone Time. He said, “I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” Quotes like this one help remind us that solitude can be empowering and invaluable.

A loner is not necessarily a lonely person. Both Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves have given interviews where they describe themselves as loners. They say it means they spend time reflecting and thinking, and it has given them a better interior life and and deeper understanding of themselves.

Maybe you too prefer quiet time to busy socializing. Or maybe you just like to know you are walking your own path in life and that is okay.

I hope you enjoy the meaning and messages in these great loner quotes. They all have to do with the special inner strength we all can tap into when we spend time alone. Here toxic is the time life hands you.

Positive Loner Quotes

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“I am completely a loner. In my head, I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.”― Arundhati Roy

“If love and friendship make you unhappy, try solitude.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The best things have always come from the loneliest people.” — Adam Gnade

“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

“I’ve always been kind of a loner. Continue to be.” — Benjamin McKenzie

“Solitude matters, and for some people, it is the air that they breathe.” — Susan Cain

“Reading requires a loner’s temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.” — David Samuels

“I finally went where everyone goes and I realized I was never missing out.” — Meraaqi

“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.” — Honoré de Balzac

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.” — Dean Cavanagh

“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.” — Anthony Burgess

“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” — Warsan Shire

“I’d never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I’d grown used to it.” — Sebastian Faulks

“Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.” — Philip O Ceallaigh

“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.” — Rollo May

“I’m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I’m happy. Not sad. I’m just shy and nervous.” — Clea DuVall

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.” — Erma Bombeck

“Being a loner doesn’t make you lonely, but being lonely can make a loner” — Eiro Silvigne

“You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.” — Criss Jami

“Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude.” — Mary Shelle

“They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does – when you can’t get enough of it.” — Anneli Rufus

“I was told I was dangerous…I asked why, and their response was “because you don’t need anyone.”

“I’m a popular loner. I know a lot of people and a lot of people know me but my circle is small and I’m usually by myself.”

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people than I feel on my own.” — Henry Rollins

“I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.” — Bela Lugosi

Famous Quotes About Being A Loner

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“I am completely a loner. In my head, I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.” ― Arundhati Roy

“Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.” — Vladimir Putin

“Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.” ― Deepak Chopra

“I like silence; I’m a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.” ― Karen Armstrong

“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.” ― Anthony Burgess

“I do feel like a loner but I think it’s because I look at things differently than other people.” ― Ricky Williams

“I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.” ― Marilynne Robinson

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” ― Aldous Huxley

“Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.” — Charles Bukowski

“But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.” ― William Manchester

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” ― Aristotle

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” ― Wayne W. Dyer

“A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don’t have best friends or best buddies.” ― Michael Shannon

“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.” ― Albert Einstein

“I am completely a loner. In my head, I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.” ― Arundhati Roy

“It’s the journey of the self, I guess. You start with this kind of a loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.” ― Keanu Reeves

“The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.” ― Anneli Rufus

“I’m very much a loner. I don’t like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.” ― Anthony Hopkins

“Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” — Paul Tillich

Short Loner Quotes Instagram

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“The best adventures are embarked on alone.” ― Lidia Longorio

“I hate when I can’t control my loneliness.” ― Leju Thomas

“I am never less alone than when alone.” — Cicero

“Alone is what I have. Alone protects me.” — Sherlock

“I am a loner, who does not want to feel lonely.”

“I enjoy being alone, my soul is at peace in the silence.”

“Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.” — Laurence Sterne

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

“You only grow when you are alone.” — Paul Newman

“Seclusion is the price of greatness.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

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Introvert Being Alone Quotes

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.” — Henry Rollins

A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don’t have best friends or best buddies.” ― Michael Shannon

“One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there’s time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one’s satisfaction.” — Andrea Seigel

“One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there’s time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one’s satisfaction.” — Andrea Seigel

“It’s the journey of the self, I guess. You start with this kind of a loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.” ― Keanu Reeves

“I accepted the fact that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.” — Arthur Ashe

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.” — Jodi Picoult

“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.” ― Albert Einstein

“Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves. Loners are curious, vigilant, and full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.” ― Anneli Rufus

You can become a bitter loner who goes through life being pissed off at the world; you can fester with rage until one day you murder your classmates. Or, you can find another outlet for your love, where it will be appreciated and maybe even returned.” ―Jodee Blanco

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