Being Alone Quotes - Page 2

Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Solitude is independence.

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

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 people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.