Alone Quotes

"I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so 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."

Joshua Slocum

"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."

Amy Sedaris

"Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]"

John Green

"Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone."

Jarod Kintz

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being."

John Joseph Powell

"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us."

Walt Whitman

"But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone."

Mitch Albom

"And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone."

L.M. Montgomery

"If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU."

Mandy Hale

"I had a dream about you. We went for a walk, though we didn’t hold hands because we went in separate directions. As I walked alone I thought about how you had the funniest way of showing affection to me."

Jarod Kintz

"If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go."

Nikos Kazantzakis

"I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid."

Lois Lowry

"I meet people to know I’m not alone. I network like an astronaut on the moon."

Jarod Kintz

"People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory."

Karl Lagerfeld

"I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again."

Nicholas Sparks

"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

George Bernard Shaw

"Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone."

Francine Rivers

"You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone."

Amit Ray

"And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out."

Gayle Forman

"I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people,or places,or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind."

Charlotte Eriksson

"How terrible,"said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void."

Christopher Paolini

"Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest."

Mike Norton

"So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore."

Gayle Forman

"I sip my coffee like I fall in love—alone in a field of flowers, writing poetry for the mailman, who delivers love letters, but never gets any."

Jarod Kintz

"The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you,it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know,your fears, your 4 am thoughts, your achievements,are things I no longer have an equivalent to.Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now.-Tanzy Sayadi and Jarod Kintz"

Tanzy Sayadi

"Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now."

Jarod Kintz

"There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey."

Mandy Hale

"In the beginning, being alone is always a choice. Then it's not a choice anymore. When did it stop being a choice? What is it in me that stopped choosing you, that moved into you instead so that I have to be with you in order to be with myself?"

Gunnar Ardelius

"Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment."

Janet Fitch

"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."

Dejan Stojanovic

"You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know."

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

"The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person."

Jonathan Tropper

"When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone."

Amit Kalantri

"The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world."

Mike Norton

"I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me."

Charles Dickens

"Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot escape yourself, for God has singled you out."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Septimus has been working too hard"- that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought."

Virginia Woolf

"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone."

Charlie Chaplin

"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

Albert Camus

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

Albert Einstein

"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."

Chanakya

"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."

Audrey Hepburn

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

Audrey Hepburn

"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."

Maya Angelou

"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."

Paul Tillich

"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

Henry David Thoreau

"Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying."

Martin Luther

"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

Henry David Thoreau

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