Best 235 quotes in «being alone quotes» category

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

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

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

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

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.

If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.

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

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

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

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

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 never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

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

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

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.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

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

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

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