Best 235 quotes in «being alone quotes» category

I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

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

I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.

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

I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.

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

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

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

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

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.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.

Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

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

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

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.

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.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

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

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

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

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

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

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

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

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

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.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

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

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

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

Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does not communicate by word alone.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.