Being Alone Quotes - Page 7

• Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lonely, Loneliness, Solitude

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• There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

  Minnie Driver

  Letting Go, Sorry, Loneliness

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• No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Lonely, Loneliness, Acceptance

  Isn't It Romantic act 1, sc. 6 (1983)

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• A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

  Chanakya

  Life, Karma, Men

  "Chanakya Neeti" by Chanakya, (p. 13), 2002.

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• We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Acceptance, Ready, International Peace

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

  Tom Wolfe

  Life, Loneliness, Men

  "The American Mercury", p. 467, "The Anatomy of Loneliness", October 1941.

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• There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Wall, Wine, Solitude

  "Freedom". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1908.

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• Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lonely, Memories, Loneliness

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.39, Joseph Conrad

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• Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

  Conrad Aiken

  Loneliness, Knows, Known

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• Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

  1927 Lazarus. Lazarus Laughed, act 3, sc.2.

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• Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Laughter, Laughing

  'Solitude'

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• A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Children, Writing

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• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

  Judy Garland

  Lonely, Legends, Ifs

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

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• To be adult is to be alone.

  Jean Rostand

  Time, Loneliness, Adults

  Pens‚es d'un biologiste (Thoughts of a Biologist, 1954) p. 134

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• So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Lonely, Loneliness, Albatross

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, p.50

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• The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Lonely, Loneliness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.112, Penguin

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• If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

  Thomas Merton

  Being Single, Heart, Single Life

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.121, Shambhala Publications

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• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Lonely, Loneliness

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To You on Your First Birthday)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Life, Lonely

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

  Helen Keller

  Best Friend, Friendship, True Friend

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• The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

  Norman Cousins

  Missing You, Heartbroken, Lonely

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

  Vicki Baum

  Lonely, Loneliness, Ice

  Vicki Baum (2016). “Grand Hotel”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

  Margaret Cho

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

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• The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

  Tom Wolfe

  Lonely, Loneliness, Vanity

  "The American Mercury", p. 467, "The Anatomy of Loneliness", October 1941.

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