Being Alone Quotes - Page 14

• 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.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lonely, Loneliness, Youth Of Today

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• 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.

  Anne Hathaway

  Lonely, Loneliness, Feeling Alone

  Interview with Angelina Jolie, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2010.

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• A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Running, Loneliness, Men

  "Wild Women Talk Back : Audacious Advice for the Bedroom, Boardroom, and Beyond". Book by Autumn Stephens (p. 15), 2004.

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• Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.

  John Spence

  Lonely, Life Changing, Mean

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• Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Dream, Sky

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• I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.

  Gene Simmons

  Voice, People, And Love

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Revenge, Two, Smoking

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.77, Vintage

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• Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

  Mason Cooley

  Blame, Living Alone, Harder

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• Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

  Arnold Rothstein

  Going Away, Want, All Alone

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• Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.79, Routledge

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  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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.36, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I 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.

  Joshua Slocum

  Book, Self, Solitude

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.145, Applewood Books

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• I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

  Lord Byron

  Hilarious, Appetite For Life, Solitude

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• Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Sorry, Life And Love

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• What makes loneliness an anguish
  Is not that I have no one to share my burden,
  But this:
  I have only my own burden to bear.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Loneliness, Bears, Being Lonely

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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