Being Alone Quotes - Page 13

• Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, Pain, True Friend

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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

  Giacomo Casanova

  Giving, Feelings, Feeling Lost

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Love, Bye, Dwelling

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• Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspiration, Creativity, Feelings

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.329, Princeton University Press

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

  Eric Dickerson

  Being Single, Love Is, Self Love

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• I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

  Delta Burke

  Single, Lonely, Being Single

  "5 Things to Love About Being Single" by Whitney Caudill, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• We did not come to remain whole.
  We came to lose our leaves like the trees,
  Trees that start again.

  Robert Bly

  Tree, Whole, Loses

  Robert Bly (2009). “Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

  Martha Beck

  Lonely, Oxygen, Feelings

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

  Anne Frank

  Lonely, Nature, Loneliness

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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.

  Amy Sedaris

  Opportunity, Thinking, Giving

  Amy Sedaris (2008). “I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence”, p.302, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Quiet People, Creativity

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• The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside
  to meet people. That will only keep you from being alone. The secret
  is going inside yourself, to realize your true kinship with God and
  with all the human beings that he created.

  Amy Grant

  Loneliness, People, Feelings

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Feeling Alone

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.364, A&C Black

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• This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Stay Strong

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.260, A&C Black

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• We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.88, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

  Yul Brynner

  Love, Life, Death

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• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  Fefe Dobson

  Pain, Real, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Lonely, Loneliness, Reality

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

  Sloane Crosley

  Love You, Being Single, Wine

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.132, Granta Books

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• The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

  Deb Caletti

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Water, Depth, Doing Nothing

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.420, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

  Joss Whedon

  Fear, Loneliness, Being Lonely

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• Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

  Jessamyn West

  Friendship, Writing, Creativity

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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

  Thomas Browne

  Self, Solitude, Able

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.176

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• Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.413

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