Being Alone Quotes - Page 14

• The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

  Deb Caletti

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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  A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.36, Arthur Schopenhauer

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Feeling 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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• The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside
  to meet people. That will only keep you from being alone. The secret
  is going inside yourself, to realize your true kinship with God and
  with all the human beings that he created.

  Amy Grant

  Loneliness, People, Feelings

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• That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Revenge, Two, Smoking

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.77, Vintage

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• Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Water, Depth, Doing Nothing

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.420, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

  Thomas Browne

  Self, Solitude, Able

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.176

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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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• Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.

  John Spence

  Lonely, Life Changing, Mean

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• Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Dream, Sky

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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, Self, Solitude

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

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

  Anne Frank

  Lonely, Nature, Loneliness

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  Fefe Dobson

  Pain, Real, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.88, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

  Martha Beck

  Lonely, Oxygen, Feelings

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