All Alone Quotes

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Being Alone

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.364, A&C Black

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

  Ellen Burstyn

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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  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.

  Robin Williams

  Love, Life, Lonely

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

  Ronald Anthony Cross

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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

  Justin Timberlake

  Hilarious, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

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• I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Heart, Mind, Looks

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jan 29, 2015

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• 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.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Life, Depressing

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

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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• A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Single, Spring, Women

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Lonely, Loneliness

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To You on Your First Birthday)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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

  Maya Angelou

  Friendship, Lonely, Loneliness

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.82, Random House

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• 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 cos I'm too content being by myself.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dog, Lonely, Being Alone

  "Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.

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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Halloween, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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

  Arnold Rothstein

  Being Alone, Going Away, Want

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

  Whitney Houston

  Friends, Being Alone, Mean

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• 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.

  Joshua Slocum

  Book, Being Alone, Self

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.145, Applewood Books

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• 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

  Being Alone, Opportunity, Thinking

  Amy Sedaris (2008). “I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence”, p.302, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Anne Hathaway

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Interview with Angelina Jolie, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2010.

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• 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.

  James Dean

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

  Richard Yates

  Honesty, Being Alone, Done

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• 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

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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