Being Alone Quotes

841 Being Alone quotes by 532 unique authors

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. — Tom Wolfe
So many books, so little time. — Frank Zappa
Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. — Mother Teresa
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. — Franz Kafka
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently… — Carl Jung
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A A Milne
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur C. Clarke
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. — Charlotte Bronte
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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… — Carl Jung
It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays. — Audrey Niffenegger
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure… — Barbara Kingsolver
there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. — Nicole Krauss
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. — Helen Keller
In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the… — Haruki Murakami
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. — Alan Lightman
love the life you live. live the life you love. — Bob Marley
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what… — John O'Donohue
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they… — Jodi Picoult
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks. — Milan Kundera
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for… — Haruki Murakami
All great and precious things are lonely. — John Steinbeck

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