Being Alone Quotes

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.

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

When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

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

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.

Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.

It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.

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

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

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.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

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.

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

All we ask is to be let alone.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

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

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

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

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

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 need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

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

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

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.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

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.

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

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in 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.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

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

When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

Solitude is independence.

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.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

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

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

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.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.