Being Alone Quotes

841 Being Alone quotes by 532 unique authors

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people. — Joan Collins
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their… — Charles Caleb Colton
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most… — Joseph Conrad
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. — Norman Cousins
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… — Claire Danes
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. — James Dean
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
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. — Indra Devi
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield… — Lawrence Durrell
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. — Wayne Dyer
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. — Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. — Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. — Albert Einstein
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? — George Eliot
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by… — Nora Ephron
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. — Henry Ford
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. — Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. — Dag Hammarskjold
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to… — Dag Hammarskjold
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of… — Lorraine Hansberry
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or… — Anne Hathaway
I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone. — Audrey Hepburn
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. — Hermann Hesse
Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse

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