Being Alone Quotes

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

And to get the work done that I must do, one has to work in isolation and not be readily disturbed... I don't have daily newspapers, and I like to feel when I get up in the morning my attention is fixed on the work I am going to do.

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

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.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

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.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

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

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

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

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

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.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

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

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

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

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.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

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.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

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