Alone Quote by Freya Stark

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

— Freya Stark

“Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday…

— Pema Chödrön

“Solitude, which is one of the most agreeable sensations of the natural man, is one of the most painful and alarming sensations of the…

— William J. Dawson

“Being awake is a blessing and a curse—seeing truths others can't see can be lonely, but the clarity it brings is invaluable.”

— Jen Alvares

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

— Caroline Knapp

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of…

— Edward Hirsch

There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is…

— H. P. Lovecraft

It feels good to be awake, knowing others are asleep. Makes you feel like the night is not for everyone, just a chosen few.

— Joseph Morgan

Living alone in the city as it breaths and swells with people is never more a lonely feeling.

— Jacob Mitchek

“I felt once again the unease of arriving at night in an unknown city--that faint sour panic which seems to cling to a place…

— Laurie Lee

“A cold winter night. I'm warm enough, yet I'm alone. And I realize that I'll 'have' to get used to existing quite 'naturally' within…

— Roland Barthes