Being Alone Quotes

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.

And being alone is the best way to be When I'm by myself it's the best way to be When I'm all alone it's the best way to be When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye

On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

Never say never to anything, .. As you get older, being alone isn't very desirable. You want someone to drink your coffee with, to share your television with. I missed male companionship.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.

The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.

But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

Sociopaths are not afraid of very much, except for physical harm and dying - really primitive, basic kinds of fears. The problem with being alone for a sociopath is boredom.

What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

Never fear being alone, because you never are.

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.

I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late