Being Alone Quotes - Page 11

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

  Pearl Cleage

  Loneliness, Coffee, Night

  Pearl Cleage (1990). “Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth”, Cleage Group

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• Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets
  loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today
  the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the
  techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.

  Alvin Toffler

  Loneliness, People, Giving

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

  Tim Burton

  Creativity, Caves, World

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.36, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

  Katrina Kenison

  Holiday, Opportunity, Solitude

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• I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

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• Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

  Thomas Merton

  Loneliness, Profound, Vision

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

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• As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

  Sienna Miller

  Feeling Alone, All Alone, Left Alone

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• People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Together, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.

  Anneli Rufus

  Solitude, Loner, Excess

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• I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

  Celine Dion

  Talking, People, Silence

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

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• It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.

  Maria Isabel Barreno

  Spring, Solitude

  Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Velho da Costa (1975). “The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters”, p.347

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Sad, Appreciation, Inspirational Life

  "Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Views

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

  Alan Lightman

  Loneliness, Past, Tragedy

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.42, Vintage

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• Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

  Milan Kundera

  Sweet, Loneliness, Solitude

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• All great and precious things are lonely.

  John Steinbeck

  Lonely, Loneliness, Precious Things

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.458, Penguin

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• It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.

  Stephen Stills

  Lonely, Hurt, Sorry

  Song: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, 2007

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• When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

  Don Williams

  Loneliness, Heart, Men

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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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• Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Lonely, Memories, Loneliness

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• 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.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Loneliness, Phones, Talking

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• 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.

  John Cheever

  Lonely, Loneliness, Autumn

  1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

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• All we ask is to be let alone.

  Jefferson Davis

  Loneliness, Revolution, Asks

  1861 Inaugural address, 18 Feb.

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• Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

  Liv Ullmann

  Loneliness, Swimming, Hollywood

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• I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

  Tom Cochrane

  Lonely, Loneliness, Believe

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