Being Alone Quotations | Page 2

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

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.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.

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.

On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

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

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

To be adult is to be alone.

There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.

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...

You only grow when you are alone.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

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

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

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

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.

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.

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.

When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.

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.

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

All great and precious things are lonely.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

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.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Solitude is independence.

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

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

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

Remember we're all in this alone.

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

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

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

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.

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

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Never fear being alone, because you never are.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

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.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

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.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

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

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

Spend some time alone every day.

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.

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

Be good and you will be lonely.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

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

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.

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.

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

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

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.

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

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.

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

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.