Being Alone Quotes - Page 2

• If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

  Jules Renard

  Lonely, Funny Inspirational, Loneliness

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• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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• We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Thinking, Race

  "Campus Life: Centenary; Love Is Message As Maya Angeloub Addresses 700", www.nytimes.com. March 11, 1990.

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

  Edward Gibbon

  Time, Loneliness, Thinking

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• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Loneliness, Solitude, Secret

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• Be good and you will be lonely.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, Loneliness, Peer Pressure

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.247, Courier Corporation

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• All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

  Dr. Seuss

  Depressing, You Like It, All Alone

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• A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Creativity, Careers, Acting

  Quoted in Ms., Aug. 1972

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• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "Women of Faith and Spirit: Their Words & Thoughts". Book edited by Dayna Beilenson and Mary Alice Warner, p. 42, 1987.

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• I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Inspirational, Life, God

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jun 06, 2011

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• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell

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• Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

  James Dean

  Loneliness, Imagination, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, Self Esteem, Loneliness

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• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Quiet Moments, Monotonous Life

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• Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

  May Sarton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Self

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.92, Open Road Media

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• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sad, Lonely, Loneliness

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. June 22-24, 1880.

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• It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Lonely, Loneliness

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• We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sad, Lonely, Loneliness

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• To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Broken Heart, Lonely

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

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• Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Writing, Creativity

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• When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

  Alfred Polgar

  Loneliness, Solitude, Feeling Lonely

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• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

  William Penn

  Easter, Health, Sleep

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

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• Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.511, Thomas Wolfe

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• All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Being Sad, Inability, Unhappiness

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• 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?

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Loneliness, Missing

  "The Oscars Get It All Wrong Again: David Foster Wallace and the Best Film of 2015" by Allen Callaci, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2016.

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