Being Alone Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

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

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

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

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.

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.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

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.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

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.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

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.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

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

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.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

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

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.

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

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

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

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

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

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.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

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

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.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

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

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

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

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

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

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.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

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.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

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 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 want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

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

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

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

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

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

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

I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

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

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

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.

The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside to meet people. That will only keep you from being alone. The secret is going inside yourself, to realize your true kinship with God and with all the human beings that he created.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.

We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio or televsion to fill up the void... We can do our housework with soap-opera heroes at our side... Now instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place. We must re-learn to be alone.

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.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self

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