Being Alone Quotes - Page 3

• My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

  Warsan Shire

  Loneliness, Being Single, Single Life

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• We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

  Dorothy Day

  Loneliness, Community Living, Long

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• Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creativity, Solitude, Impossible

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.

  Michael Josephson

  Lonely, Mean, People

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• I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

  Beverly Pepper

  Creativity, Artist, People

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• With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Lonely, Loneliness, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

  Salman Rushdie

  Powerful, Creativity, Solitude

  "East, west" by Alan Rafferty, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2003.

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• Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Heart, Thinking, Punishment

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• They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

  Philip Sidney

  Single, Lonely, Loneliness

  Philip Sidney (1901). “The Sidneys of Penshurst”

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

  Eugene Delacroix

  Wisdom, Solitude, Feeling Lonely

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• Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

  Douglas Davis

  Art, Creativity, Creative

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• And to get the work done that I must do, one has to work in isolation and not be readily disturbed... I don't have daily newspapers, and I like to feel when I get up in the morning my attention is fixed on the work I am going to do.

  Reg Butler

  Morning, Creativity, Attention

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• Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

  Germaine Greer

  Wisdom, Lonely, Loneliness

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

  Martha Beck

  Lonely, Loneliness, Connections

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

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Artist, Solitude

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• No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Boredom, Healthy

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.118, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Graduation, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

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• Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Sad, Depressing

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 3 "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth" pt. 4 (1874)

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• In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

  Laurence Sterne

  Strength, Wisdom, Loneliness

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Loneliness, Angel, Two

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• I was never less alone than when by myself.

  Edward Gibbon

  Loneliness, Feeling Alone, Solitude

  Edward Gibbon, John Baker Holroyd (2014). “Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire”, p.83, Cambridge University Press

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• When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

  Gertrude Stein

  Memorable, Feeling Alone, Solitude

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6173, Delphi Classics

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• Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Loneliness, Feeling Lonely, Poverty

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• When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Single

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.67, A&C Black

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• A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Cheer, Creativity

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.34

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