Being Alone Quotes - Page 4

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

Be good and you will be lonely.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.