Best 235 quotes in «being alone quotes» category

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Be good and you will be lonely.

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

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

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

For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.

Great minds think alone.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

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.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

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

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

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

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.

First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and being alone is also beautiful. Then it is simple, too. You dont depend on others and you dont make others dependent on you.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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

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