Express your feelings of loneliness with our lonely captions for Instagram!
In a world that’s always buzzing with connections, it’s still pretty easy to feel lonely.
People often represent their “best life” on social media, but life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows!
So let’s be honest about our feelings and express those raw and emotional feelings too.
Here’s some captions to help you express feelings of loneliness on Instagram!
Lonely Captions For Instagram
Express your feelings with these lonely captions for Instagram.
- Do you know what it’s like to be truly alone?
- Loneliness speaks the loudest.
- Lost and lonely.
- Drowning in loneliness.
- Loneliness seeps into my soul.
- This is what loneliness looks like.
- Scared to be lonely.
- A heart full of loneliness.
- Being lonely is better than being surrounded by fake friends.
- Nobody to call.
- Only the lonely know how I feel.
- I feel so lonely.
- A lonely place to be.
- Life is lonely.
- Being different makes you lonely.
- Surrounded by people but drowning in loneliness.
- Like the shadows, loneliness follows you everywhere.
- Life makes me lonely.
- I wish I could change this feeling of loneliness.
- Me against the world.
- Every day I feel more and more lonely.
- When the heart aches for connection, but the world remains silent.
- Just a body with nobody.
Short Lonely Captions
These two word captions sum up feelings of loneliness while keeping your captions short.
- Just me.
- Lonely soul.
- Population: Me
- Lonely memories.
- All alone.
- Lonely heart.
- Super lonely.
- Alone again.
- Lonely moments.
- Learning loneliness.
- Being lonely.
- Always alone.
- Lone wolf.
- Forever lonely.
- Battling loneliness.
- Chronically lonely.
One Word Lonely Captions
You can even use simple one word captions to sum up your feelings of isolation.
- Alone
- Solitary
- Lonely
- Invisible
- Solo
- Loner
- L•O•N•E•L•Y
- ♥ Lonely ♥
- Isolated
- Ignored
- Empty
- Unwanted
- Numb
Sad Lonely Captions For Instagram
Feeling lonely can be difficult, so here are some sad lonely captions for Instagram.
- Just me as always.
- I don’t enjoy my own company, I just have no choice.
- Lonely is a dark place to be.
- I wouldn’t wish this loneliness on anyone.
- I have no one.
- I don’t want to be alone.
- People always leave.
- I am unwanted.
- How do I feel so lonely in a crowded room?
- Walking a lonely road.
- The silence of loneliness.
- I only know loneliness.
- I wish I had someone to talk to.
- A lonely life is all I know.
- Sometimes, the loneliness is too loud.
Check out our dark captions too!
Alone Captions
If you’re feeling alone in the word, here are some captions for your Instagram posts. You might also like our alone captions too!
- I walk this world alone.
- I’d rather be alone than have people keep disappointing me.
- Nobody likes to be alone.
- Alone in the darkness of my mind.
- Being alone is the only thing I can count on.
- Alone in this world.
- Wandering through life alone.
- Alone with my thoughts.
- Alone but not by choice.
- Life is a path I walk alone.
Lonely Captions For Girls
Our lonely captions for girls encapsulate what it’s like to live the life of a lonely girl!
- In my lonely girl era.
- Queen of Solitude.
- She cries in her lonely heart.
- Lonely girl.
- A lonely girl in a big world.
- Ghost of a girl.
- Living a lonely girl life.
- Girls don’t want to be lonely.
- Just a girl and her thoughts.
- It’s easy for a girl to feel lonely.
- A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I’m the queen. – Elsa, Frozen.
Lonely Captions For Boys
These captions are perfect for boys who want to express feelings of loneliness.
- Mr. Lonely.
- King of Solitude.
- Lonely boy.
- A solitary man.
- A one man show.
- Some men were made to walk the world alone.
- A lonely boy in an empty world.
- Life as a lonely guy.
- Sometimes a guy just gets lonely.
Lonely Song Lyrics
Song lyrics are a great way to connect with how you’re feeling and they make great lonely captions too!
- “I have nobody for my own.” – Lonely, Akon.
- “Don’t want to be all by myself anymore.” – All By Myself, Eric Carmen.
- “I don’t know if I can be alone again.” – Alone Again, The Weeknd.
- “But no one’s listening, and that’s just lonely.” – Justin Bieber & benny blanco.
- “I’ll be what I am, a solitary man.” – Solitary Man, Johnny Cash.
- “To be so lonely.” – To Be So Lonely, Harry Styles.
- “The silent sounds of loneliness wants to follow me to bed.” – The Lonely, Christina Perri.
- “Show me the meaning of being lonely. Is this the feeling I need to walk with?” – Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely, Backstreet Boys.
- “Lonely is the night when I’m not with you.” – Lonely Is the Night, Air Supply.
- “I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known. Don’t know where it goes, but it’s home to me, and I walk alone.” – Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Green Day.
- “My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me.” – Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Green Day.
- “Just a small town girl, livin’ in a lonely world” – Don’t Stop Believin’, Journey.
Lonely Quotes
Sometimes the words of other people sum up how you feel best. Here are some lonely quotes that would make great social media captions!
- “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, My Sister’s Keeper.
- “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” – Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet.
- “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- “Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?” – Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart.
- “All great and precious things are lonely.” – John Steinbeck, East of Eden.
- “I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs.” – Augusten Burroughs, Dry.
- “When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.” – Fiona Apple.
- “If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World.
- “There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock” – Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell.
- “I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.” – Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins.
- “At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.” – Brendan Behan.
Quotes About Being Alone
Here are some extra quotes about the feeling of being alone.
- “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.” – Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon.
- “Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.” – Charles Bukowski, Women.
- “We live as we dream–alone….” – Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness.
- “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” – Rainer Maria Rilke.
- “I’m not much but I’m all I have.” – Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip.
- “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” – Paul Tillich.
- “It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” – George Washington.
- “The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.” – Henrik Ibsen.
- “To live alone is the fate of all great souls.” – Arthur Schopenhauer.
- “The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.” – Robert Anton Wilson.
Lindsey is the creator and writer behind The Caption Library. She’s worked in social media marketing since 2011 and has worked with a range of magazines, small businesses and bloggers. She enjoys being creative, whether it’s writing for her blogs or running her Etsy store!
