Being Alone Quotes - Page 5

• Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

  Julie Delpy

  Relationship, Romantic, Single

  "Fast Food Dating Your 2 Cents". Book by Peter Sacco and Jennifer Schott, 2011.

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• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

  George Eliot

  Lonely, Loneliness, Trust Issues

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.935, Xist Publishing

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• Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Teacher, Fall, Thinking

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.

  Horatius Bonar

  God, Christian, Time

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• No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

  Aristotle

  Lonely, Loneliness, Philosophical

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Creativity, Effort

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• When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

  Epictetus

  Loneliness, Light, Doors

  Epictetus (1967). “The Discourses as Reported by Arrian: The Manual, and Fragments”

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• Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Inspirational, Dream, Children

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

  Eda LeShan

  Single, Self Esteem, Loneliness

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• Pain is never permanent.

  Teresa of Avila

  Single, Spiritual, Pain

  "The Book of Positive Quotations" edited by John Cook, Steve Deger, and Leslie Ann Gibson, (p. 333), 2007.

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• Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

  Renee Jones

  Marriage, Single, Lonely

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• My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Offering, People

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• I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loneliness, Personality, Loner

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• Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Ideas, Solitude

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• Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Real

  Barbara De Angelis (1995). “Real Moments”, Dell

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• Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

  Mortimer Adler

  Lonely, Feeling Alone, Like Being Alone

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• Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.

  John Denver

  Love, Memories, Home

  Song: Perhaps Love, 1982

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• How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?

  Jim Morrison

  Guts

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• Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Single, Spring, Women

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• People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1988). “A doctor's visit: short stories”, Bantam Classics

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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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• Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Life, Meaningful

  "Time Spent in a Psych Ward" by Erin Nugent, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2015.

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