Being Alone Quotes - Page 4

• A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Cheer, Creativity

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.34

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• In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

  Laurence Sterne

  Strength, Wisdom, Loneliness

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• Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

  Paul Brunton

  Strength, Men, Solitude

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• Remember we're all in this alone.

  Lily Tomlin

  Loneliness, Feeling Lonely, Remember

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• When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

  Gertrude Stein

  Memorable, Feeling Alone, Solitude

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6173, Delphi Classics

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• The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Real, Creativity, Artist

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• On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Creativity, Winning, Creative

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• I was never less alone than when by myself.

  Edward Gibbon

  Loneliness, Feeling Alone, Solitude

  Edward Gibbon, John Baker Holroyd (2014). “Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire”, p.83, Cambridge University Press

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• Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

  Thomas Harris

  Lonely, Loneliness, Greed

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.319, Macmillan

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• The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  People, Leave Me Alone, Bed

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.33, Canongate Books

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• Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Inspiration, Men

  c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.4, no.3 (translated by M Staniforth).

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• My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

  Claude Monet

  Creativity, Impression, My Own

  Claude Monet (1983). “Claude Monet at the time of Giverny”

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

  Ellen Burstyn

  Lonely, Loneliness, Solitude

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• I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Hilarious, Loneliness, Feeling Alone

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• First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and being alone is also beautiful. Then it is simple, too. You dont depend on others and you dont make others dependent on you.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Simple, Firsts

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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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• When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heartbreak, God, Disappointment

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.46, Discovery House

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• The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Creativity, Men

  "The Creative Process" by James A. Baldwin originally published in The National Culture Center's "Creative America", 1962, and later published in James A. Baldwin "The Price of the Ticket", 1985.

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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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• I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

  Claire Danes

  Thinking, Imagination, Solitude

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

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• I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Loneliness, Thinking, People

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

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Feeling Alone, Unhappy

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

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• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

  Octavio Paz

  Loneliness, Men, Alone Man

  The Labyrinth of Solitude ch. 9 (1950) (translation by Lysander Kemp)

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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• I wear perfume even when I’m alone

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Perfume

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