Being Alone Quotes - Page 7

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

If love is universal, no one can be left out.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.