Best 235 quotes in «being alone quotes» category

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.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.

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

Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.

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

Never fear being alone, because you never are.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

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

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.

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

Remember we're all in this alone.

Solitude is independence.

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.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

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

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.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

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 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 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.

Spend some time alone every day.

Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.