Being Alone Quotes

841 Being Alone quotes by 532 unique authors

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief,… — Christopher Morley
You only grow when you are alone. — Paul Newman
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. — Eugene O'Neill
Being alone is very difficult. — Yoko Ono
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. — Chuck Palahniuk
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. — Blaise Pascal
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. — Blaise Pascal
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes… — John Dos Passos
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. — Octavio Paz
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. — William Penn
I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel… — Robert Plant
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. — Jules Renard
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. — Rainer Maria Rilke
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. — Jim Rohn
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. — Henry Rollins
To be adult is to be alone. — Jean Rostand
Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone. — Arnold Rothstein
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and… — Bertrand Russell
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I… — Winona Ryder
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. — May Sarton
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. — Jean-Paul Sartre
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… — Jason Schwartzman
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. — Albert Schweitzer
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of… — Gene Simmons

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