Being Alone Quotes

• It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Friendship, Lonely

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  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 who make you feel all alone.

  Robin Williams

  Love, Life, Lonely

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  Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

  Henry Rollins

  Life, Lonely, Depressing

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Lonely

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

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  I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Lonely, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Beauty, Loneliness

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• Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

  Pablo Picasso

  Loneliness, Creativity, Solitude

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• If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Loneliness, Fall, Half

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• You only grow when you are alone.

  Paul Newman

  Wisdom, Solitude, Feeling Lonely

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• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Loneliness, Being Single

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sea, Sky, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.169, Penguin

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• The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.

  Nikola Tesla

  Loneliness, Creativity, Ideas

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

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Space, Creative

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  There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Lonely, Nature, Travel

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Alone Man, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.19, 谷月社

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• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  Wayne Dyer

  Confidence, Lonely, Clever

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I restore myself when I'm alone.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Ms. Magazine (p. 40), August 1972.

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• Solitude is independence.

  Hermann Hesse

  Creativity, Solitude, Independence

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

  Martin Luther

  Death, Faith, Loneliness

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• 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.

  Amelia Barr

  Voice, Solitude, Comfort

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.317, Library of Alexandria

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• Spend some time alone every day.

  Dalai Lama

  Valentines Day, Buddhist, Inspiration

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• All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Peace, Hipster

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