Being Alone Quotes

• It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Friendship, Lonely

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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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  Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

  Henry Rollins

  Life, Lonely, Depressing

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  I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Lonely, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Lonely

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

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• You only grow when you are alone.

  Paul Newman

  Wisdom, Solitude, Feeling Lonely

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• 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.

  Amelia Barr

  Voice, Solitude, Comfort

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.317, Library of Alexandria

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  There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Lonely, Nature, Travel

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sea, Sky, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.169, Penguin

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• The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Beauty, Loneliness

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

  Dr. Seuss

  Depressing, You Like It, All Alone

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

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Space, Creative

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• I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Loneliness, Being Single

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I restore myself when I'm alone.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Ms. Magazine (p. 40), August 1972.

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

  Martin Luther

  Death, Faith, Loneliness

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• If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

  Jules Renard

  Lonely, Funny Inspirational, Loneliness

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Creativity, People, History

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• 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.

  Marya Mannes

  Loneliness, Space, Omission

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• Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

  Robert Genn

  Creativity, Artist, Imagination

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• Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

  Christopher Morley

  Beauty, Lonely, Pain

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