Best 235 quotes in «being alone quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions... the only assets one can take with him when one dies is one's belief or disbelief

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

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.

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

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

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.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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.

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