Being Alone Quotes

841 Being Alone quotes by 532 unique authors

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude. — Alfred Polgar
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and… — Amelia Barr
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that… — Marya Mannes
We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Never fear being alone, because you never are. — Rod McKuen
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier. — Lillian Hellman
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… — Paul Brunton
Without great solitude no serious work is possible. — Pablo Picasso
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… — Fran Lebowitz
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more… — Henry David Thoreau
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. — Roger Rosenblatt
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer. — Eugene Delacroix
Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out… — Jeanne Marie Laskas
Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. — Barbara De Angelis
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… — Gertrude Stein
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. — Vincent Van Gogh
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the… — Nikola Tesla
I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world. — Tim Burton
And to get the work done that I must do, one has to work in isolation and not be readily disturbed... I don't have daily… — Reg Butler
To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns. — John Cleese
Art starts alone - and convinces society later. — Douglas Davis
On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. — Jeffrey Eugenides
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… — Paul Gauguin
Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone. — Vincent Van Gogh

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