Always Alone Quotes

• 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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• We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

  Yul Brynner

  Love, Life, Death

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• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  Wayne Dyer

  Confidence, Lonely, Clever

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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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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• An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Lonely, Loneliness

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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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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• It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed. -Hephaestus

  Rick Riordan

  Mistake, People, Misunderstood

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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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• 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.

  Jodie Foster

  War, Being Alone, Interesting

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• I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Matter, No Matter What

  Marilyn Monroe (2010). “Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters”, p.35, Macmillan

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• 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

  Love, Lonely, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

  Beverly Pepper

  Being Alone, Creativity, Artist

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• In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moments, Significant, Significant Moments

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• When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

  May Sarton

  Important, Important Things

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.78, Open Road Media

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• A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

  Nora Ephron

  Book, Men

  Nora Ephron (1978). “Scribble Scribble Notes on the Media”

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• Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hell, Figures, Projection

  The Cocktail Party act 1, sc. 3 (1950)

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• I saw myself dancing alone, always alone.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Dancing, Saws

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• I don’t mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you’re always alone, you get lonely.

  Colleen Houck

  Lonely, Mind, Problem

  Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Curse: Tiger Saga”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.

  Dorothy Allison

  Believe, Healing, Literature

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure.

  Anais Nin

  Fighting, Men, People

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• I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon.

  Al Madrigal

  Faces, Sad Face

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• He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  People, Matter, Ends

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Swan Thieves”, p.222, Hachette UK

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• The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Dog, Lonely, Moon

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• A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lonely, Men, Thinking

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• We lunched and dined in crowded restaurants. We were always alone.

  Muriel Box

  Restaurants, Crowded

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