220+ Alone Captions for Instagram

By / February 7, 2024

Whether it’s a solo adventure, a quiet moment alone or some self-reflection on aloneness, Instagram can be a great way to share your thoughts and feelings on those quiet moments.

In a world where we can connect with people easier than ever, it can still feel lonely. It can also be difficult to find those little moments alone and find some peace, so when you do, why not celebrate it on social media?

Here are some alone captions for Instagram that capture the good and bad sides of solitude!

Alone Captions

Capture the feeling of being alone with these alone captions for Instagram!

  1. Sometimes the best company is your own.
  2. Creating my own happiness.
  3. I wander this earth alone 🌎
  4. Spend more time alone.
  5. Here I am, more alone than I’ve ever been.
  6. It is better to be alone than be in bad company.
  7. Feeling comfort in my own company.
  8. Alone, not lonely. There’s a difference.
  9. Walking my own path.
  10. Alone, just the way I like it!
  11. I always got by on my own.
  12. An introverts favorite place to be.
  13. I think I’m alone now.
  14. The sun is alone too, and yet it still shines ☀️
  15. You learn a lot about yourself by spending time alone.
  16. Sometimes you have to stand alone to prove that you can still stand.
  17. Life is better when people leave you alone.
  18. I am the person I know best.
  19. Me against the world.
  20. POV: There’s no one else around.
  21. Dancing on my own.
  22. If you want to be strong, you have to learn how to fight alone.
  23. Alone with my thoughts.
  24. Sometimes those who fly solo have the strongest wings 🦋

Short Alone Captions for Instagram

Alone captions don’t need to be long! Here are some short captions for your Instagram posts.

  1. Me, myself & I.
  2. Me time.
  3. Lone wolf.
  4. Leave me alone.
  5. In my own world.
  6. Serenity found.
  7. Flying solo.
  8. Loner.
  9. Solo dreams.
  10. Quiet moments.
  11. Time for reflection.
  12. Outcast.
  13. Independent soul.
  14. Silence is golden.
  15. All by myself.
  16. Dancing with myself.
  17. Enjoy being you.
  18. Forever alone.
  19. Recharging.
  20. Inner peace.
  21. Freedom.
  22. Broken + Alone.

Sad Alone Captions for Instagram

If being alone has left you feeling a little sad, here are some captions to help you share your feelings to your followers.

  1. A lonely place to be.
  2. Battling loneliness.
  3. Every day I feel more and more alone.
  4. Sometimes, the loneliness is too loud.
  5. I am lost without you.
  6. Everyone feels like strangers.
  7. Alone again.
  8. They ignore you until they need you.
  9. Alone in a crowded room.
  10. Alone but not by choice.
  11. Alone in the darkness of my mind.
  12. When the heart aches for connection, but the world remains silent.
  13. Surrounded by people but drowning in loneliness.
  14. Just a body with nobody.
  15. Nobody cares anyway.
  16. At least if I’m alone, no one can hurt me.
  17. Forgotten.
  18. “Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.” -.Jane Green, Swapping Lives.

Related: Cheating captions for Instagram.

Happy Alone Captions for Instagram

Being alone isn’t always a bad thing! Here are some alone captions for Instagram that capture the joy of being by yourself.

  1. Alone but not lonely.
  2. Nothing makes me happier than some alone time!
  3. Enjoy your own company.
  4. My happy place is any place I’m alone.
  5. Finding joy in just being 🦋
  6. Finding peace through solitude.
  7. Enjoying my own space at my own pace.
  8. Learn to love spending time with yourself.
  9. There’s a freedom to doing things on your own.
  10. Sometimes you just need to be by yourself.
  11. Being kind to me ♡
  12. Enjoy being alone.
  13. Writing the chapters to my own story 📖
  14. “There is a certain strength in being alone.” – Heather Duffy Stone, This Is What I Want to Tell You.
  15. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz
  16. “Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.” – Mike Norton, White Mountain.
  17. “What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” – Ellen Burstyn.
  18. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone.” – Maya Angelou

If you enjoy the peace that comes with being alone, check out our peace captions for Instagram!

Feeling Alone Captions

Connect with your followers when you’re feeling alone with these Instagram captions.

  1. In a room full of people and I still feel alone.
  2. Billions of people in the world and I’m alone 🌍
  3. Chronically alone.
  4. When the loneliness creeps up on you…
  5. Invisible in a crowded room.
  6. The echoes of my thoughts are my only company.
  7. Life is a path I walk alone.

Alone Captions For Girls

Girls, these alone captions are for you!

  1. Girls just want some time alone.
  2. Miss Independent.
  3. Just a girl and her thoughts 💭
  4. Finding strength in my singleness.
  5. In my lonely girl era.
  6. Missing my besties.
  7. It’s easy for a girl to feel lonely.
  8. Wild and free 🦋
  9. And when she was alone she dreamed of bigger and better things.
  10. A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I’m the queen. – Elsa, Frozen.
  11. “Everyone’s moving on without me, into a world I don’t understand.” – Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic.
  12. “I restore myself when I’m alone.” – Marilyn Monroe.
  13. “If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.” – Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Alone Captions for Instagram

Alone Captions For Boys

Whether you’re enjoying time alone or feeling lonely, here are some alone captions for boy’s Instagram posts.

  1. Mr. Lonely.
  2. Sometimes a guy just needs to spends some time alone.
  3. Lonely boy.
  4. Some men were made to walk the world alone.
  5. “The strongest men are the most alone.”- Ibsen.
  6. “He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.” – Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.
  7. “Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.” – Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan.
  8. “I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.

Funny Alone Captions For Instagram

If you’re feeling alone but still want to add a little humor to your Instagram feed, add one of these captions!

  1. I promise I have friends.
  2. Who likes people anyway?
  3. Table for one.
  4. When you’re alone there’s no one to judge how much ice cream you eat.
  5. Go away 👋
  6. Leave me alone, I’m introverting.
  7. Today’s plan: Avoid everybody.
  8. I’m not alone, I’m [whatever your photo is of] with my invisible friends.
  9. Just me, myself, and Netflix.
  10. With the ultimate trio – me, myself and I.
  11. Alone but with snacks 🍿
  12. When you’ve been alone for too long and start talking to the plants.
  13. Dogs/cats > People
  14. Take me to where the people aren’t.
  15. Sometimes you just have to take a break from people.
  16. 🐶>🧑
  17. 🐱>🧑

Walk Alone Instagram Captions

If you feel like you’re walking the world alone use these captions on your Instagram posts.

  1. Don’t be scared to walk alone.
  2. The walk alone will make you stronger.
  3. You don’t have to walk alone.
  4. Walking alone on a journey to self-discovery.
  5. Not all who wander alone are lost.
  6. Some walks you have to take alone 🚶🏼
  7. Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle nowhere you find yourself.
  8. Have the courage to walk alone.
  9. Born to walk this earth alone 🌏
  10. Walking solo.
  11. Those who walk alone have the strongest direction.
  12. My soul wanders alone.
  13. Be willing to walk alone. Many who started with you won’t finish with you.

Solo Travel Captions

Solo travelers, these alone captions for Instagram are for you!

  1. A solo adventure.
  2. Sometimes adventures are just better on your own.
  3. Exploring the world and myself.
  4. Wandering soul.
  5. Flying solo…literally ✈️
  6. There’s no one better to travel with than yourself.
  7. Me, myself, and the great wide world 🌍
  8. Sometimes, the greatest adventures are solo ones.
  9. Independent explorer.
  10. The world is waiting for me.
  11. When you travel solo, you learn and grow.
  12. Wherever I wander, I wander alone.
  13. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca.
  14. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux
  15. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
  16. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

Enjoying Time Alone Captions

Share how much you’re enjoying your alone time with these social media captions.

  1. An introverts paradise.
  2. Enjoying the peace and quiet.
  3. Moments of alone time keep me sane.
  4. And relax.
  5. Pure bliss 🦋
  6. Sometimes you just want to get away from everyone.
  7. Do not disturb.
  8. Alone time is the best time.
  9. Take time to rest.
  10. Getting to know me.
  11. Good things happen when you start to enjoy being alone.
  12. This is your sign to do something by yourself for yourself.
  13. Tea, a good book and silence.
  14. Always make time for yourself.
  15. Working on me.
  16. Rest is important 😴
  17. Sometimes, you just need a break.
  18. I’m learning a lot about myself by spending time with me.

Solitude Instagram Captions

Some people enjoy solitude. If you’re one of them, these captions are for you!

  1. Embracing the quietness of solitude.
  2. I find strength in solitude.
  3. Embracing solitude.
  4. Sweet solitude.
  5. “Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a God.” – Aristotle
  6. “Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” – Picasso
  7. “Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.” – Anna Neagle
  8. “Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.” – Marty Rubin
  9. “Make the time to be alone. Your best ideas live within solitude.” – Robin Sharma
  10. “Solitude is independence.” – Herman Hesse
Alone Captions: All great and precious things are lonely.

Loneliness Captions & Quotes

Share your thoughts on loneliness with these captions and quotes.

  1. Loneliness is a silent companion.
  2. It’s a lonely world.
  3. “And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.” – Sylvia Plath.
  4. “The trouble is not really in being alone, it’s being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don’t you think?” – Christine Feehan, Dark Prince.
  5. “Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.” – Charlotte Eriksson, You’re Doing Just Fine.
  6. “We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.” – Albert Schweitzer
  7. “All great and precious things are lonely.” – John Steinbeck, East of Eden.
  8. “Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.” – Haruki Murakami
  9. “Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.” – Guillermo Maldonado
  10. “Even in the loneliest moments, I have been there for myself.” – Sanober Khan

Alone Quotes

Sometimes someone else can put it into words better than you can. Here are some alone quotes you can use as captions.

  1. “It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far” – Marilyn Monroe.
  2. “I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.” – Audrey Hepburn,
  3. “If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.” – Paulo Coelho.
  4. “Being alone has a power that very few people can handle.” – Steven Aitchison.
  5. “I think it’s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.” – Amy Sedaris,
  6. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” –  Gautama Buddha,
  7. “And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.” – L.M. Montgomery.
  8. “if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.” – Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road.
  9. “Always stand for what is right, even if you are standing alone.” – Suzy Kassem.
  10. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
  11. “Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage.
  12. “What does an introvert do when he’s left alone? He stays alone.” – Jenni Ferrari-Adler.
  13. “Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.” – Joan Didion, Blue Nights.
  14. “The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.” – William O. Douglas
  15. “It’s easy to stand with the crowd, but it takes courage to stand alone” – Mahatma Gandhi
  16. “One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” – Shannon L. Alder
  17. “I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life” – Sophocles, Antigone.
  18. “All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.” – Jean de la Breyere
  19. “If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” – Jean-Paul Sartre.
  20. “The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” – Justin Timberlake
  21. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Happy Alone Quotes

Being alone can also bring joy and peace. Here are some quotes which celebrate the strength from being alone. These quotes would also make great captions for profile pictures on Facebook!

  1. “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
  2. “Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.” – Charlie Chaplin
  3. “The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.” – Andy Rooney
  4. “To live alone is the fate of all great souls.” – Arthur Schopenhauer.
  5. “The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.” – Robert Anton Wilson
  6. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel de Montaigne
  7. “You only grow when you are alone.” – Paul Newman

Alone Captions Conclusion

I hope you found a caption to go with your Instagram post!

If you are feeling lonely, look for local resources such as Mind in the UK or the Crisis Text Line in the US.

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