Being Alone Quotes - Page 5

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.

To be adult is to be alone.

My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?