Being Alone Quotes

Being Alone Quote of the day

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Sometimes I get a little sad, and I feel like being alone. Then I talk to my cat about it, and he reminds me I’m James Franco. Then we dance.

Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

I like to go dancing, have a few beers. I like being alone, too. I have days where it's 'God, get me a shot of tequila.'

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

Be good and you will be lonely.