1.The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
2.All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
3.I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
4.Sometimes you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.
5.Sometimes life is too hard to be alone and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
6.My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.
7.Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty – and oneness with a greater whole.
8.I simply adore being alone – I find it a consuming thirst – and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
9.Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
10.By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.
11.Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
12.The hardest walk you can make is alone. But it’s the walk that will make you stronger.
13.I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
14.When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.
15.People think being alone is a luxury, but it’s crucial: Whatever you’re not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.
16.You need to know how to be alone in order to know how to be together.
17.The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
18.Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.
19.Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.
20.I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
21.Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.
22.Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more empowering or freeing than learning to like your own company.
23.Sitting alone, sleeping alone, acting alone, let the diligent one enjoy the forest, taming the self alone.
24.Never fuck with someone who is not afraid to be alone. You will lose every single time.
25.In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
26.Being alone and actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.
27.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.
28.Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others.
29.Truth is, I’m generally happiest when it’s just me. It’s okay to be madly in love with yourself.
30.People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.
31.I want someone to be afraid of losing me. No one has and I don’t think no one ever will.
32.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.
33.The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
34.No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
35.We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
36.We cannot avoid being alone, so we’d better learn to love our own company. We learn our greatest life lessons alone. We discover the truth of who we are alone.
37.Sometimes I feel like I just want to be alone. But what I actually want is someone to just hold me and tell me everything will be okay.
38.I think it’s very healty to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
39.Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
40.Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.
41.Your life will get better when you realize it’s better to be alone than to chase people who don’t really care about you.
42.You’ve got to be fond of yourself enough to support yourself emotionally regardless of the intimate company of someone else.
43.Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
44.Being courageous in solitude, without witnesses, without the prize of a consent, alone in front of oneself, requires great courage and great strength.
45.To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closets.
46.People drain me. That’s why I embrace Silence and Solitude, I can spend days and days On my own without Any human contact, Not feeling lonely for even a moment.
47.A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
48.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.
49.The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
50.“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
51.There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone. The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.
52.My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening – corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.
53.Leave me alone; to battle my loneliness till the time I emerged irrevocably triumphant; sprinted forward in untamed exhilaration to bask in the full fervor of life.
54.The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
55.Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.
56.I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.
57.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.
58.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.
59.Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
60.The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do.
61.There are days when solitude 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.
62.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.
63.Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
64.I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.
65.I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so 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.
66.What has really happened when you feel alone is that you’ve abandoned yourself. You have stopped taking care of your own basic needs — you don’t value yourself, you don’t listen to your own thoughts, and you don’t take care of your physical, emotional, or spiritual self. This is what is causing you to feel alone. You have abandoned you.
67.Let me tell you this: If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
68.When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.
69.Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands, or your own genuine solitude? Freedom, or power over an entire nation. A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.
70.Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
71.Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
72.In the quiet, unexpressed, unwrestled-through disappointments, Satan is handcrafting his most damning weapons against us and those we love. It’s his subtle seduction to get us alone with our thoughts so he can slip in whispers that will develop our disappointments into destructive choices. If the enemy can isolate us, he can influence us.
73.We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
74.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.