Being Alone Quotes

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.

The sense of being alone is a huge issue for so many people in this world. As a worshipper of Jesus, there's a very real sense that we are always seen, held and known.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

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.

Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

Being alone means there is no one else in this world

My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

Sleep well in your room all three together... don't worry about me being alone.

you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

I had a fear of being alone.

Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

I want you to know that you are not alone in your being alone.

Now that I'm married and have two beautiful children, it really makes me appreciate... being alone.

If love is universal, no one can be left out.

The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.

If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.