Best 235 quotes in «being alone quotes» category

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

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.

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

Great minds think alone.

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 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.

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

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

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

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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