Quote by Michael Billig

“Being alone gave me a chance to process what my senses took in without having to factor in other people’s opinions.”

— Carole King

“But when alone--really alone--everyone is a child: or no one?' Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Sometimes we just need to be alone with our thoughts”

— Darlene Dawne

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

— Jaron Lanier

“To enter solitude, we must disregard what others think of us. Who will understand this call to aloneness? Even our closest friends will see…

— Richard J. Foster

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple…

— Nikola Tesla

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

— Andy Rooney

“If you try to be yourself, you will feel aloneness. So people follow others, the crowd; they become one with the crowd. There they…

— Osho

“So it is not fundamentally possible to be alone. Fundamentally, man has to be with other people. If man becomes totally, totally alone, then…

— Peter Høeg

It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely…

— Anthony Trollope

“The psyche of some people, whether through innate structure or via adaption to personal experiences, is uniquely adept for absolute aloneness.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Here I am, alone again, alone but not completely by myself, alone without the freedom of not having to think about someone else”

— Jane Mendelsohn