Being Alone Quotes

If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.

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.

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

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.

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.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.

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

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.

Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty - and oneness with a greater whole.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

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

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

We're no longer bored - in fact we're petrified of being alone with ourselves getting bored. Yet boredom is the foundation for creativity - an asset slowly disappearing from our world.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.

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

Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

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

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

I don't mind being alone when I'm surrounded by people, I just hate being alone when I'm alone.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

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.

Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

Socializing is more positive than being alone, that's why meetings are so popular. People don't like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn.

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)