Best 235 quotes in «being alone quotes» category

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

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

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends cos I'm too content being by myself.

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

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

There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.

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

The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside to meet people. That will only keep you from being alone. The secret is going inside yourself, to realize your true kinship with God and with all the human beings that he created.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

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

To be adult is to be alone.

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

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

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

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

We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio or televsion to fill up the void... We can do our housework with soap-opera heroes at our side... Now instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place. We must re-learn to be alone.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

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

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

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

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

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.