Being Alone Quotes - Page 6

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self

Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio or televsion to fill up the void... We can do our housework with soap-opera heroes at our side... Now instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place. We must re-learn to be alone.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

I had a fear of being alone.

I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.

Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Women are interesting, but that isn't the problem, it is that I like being alone, and I'm also touring so much that it's hard to get a relationship to work.

When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.