10 Quotes to Remember When You're Feeling Lonely and Blue

To feel alone and melancholy is not a bad thing. When this happens, it’s important to let yourself embrace these emotions. These reminders show that there is no shame in feeling this way:

“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
- Carl Jung

“We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.”
- Pierre Corneille

“Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.”
- Eckhart Tolle

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
- Jean de La Fontaine

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
- Douglas Coupland

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

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
- Dr. Seuss

“Tears are words that need to be written.”
- Paulo Coelho

“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
- Lauren Conrad

“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow