Being Alone Quotes - Page 3

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

I like to go dancing, have a few beers. I like being alone, too. I have days where it's 'God, get me a shot of tequila.'

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

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 of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.

You only grow when you are alone.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

All great and precious things are lonely.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does not communicate by word alone.