Being Alone Quotes - Page 9

• Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

  Christopher Morley

  Beauty, Lonely, Pain

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• Life is too precious to waste it with the wrong person. You're better off alone until the right one comes along.

  Tony Gaskins

  Waste, Wrong Person, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Tony A. Gaskins Jr from Jul 26, 2012

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• Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

  Aristotle

  Loneliness, Solitude, Loner

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• I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

  Lady Gaga

  Happy, Rich, Poor

  "Lady Gaga raps, rages and shares sex dreams at iTunes Festival" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. September 01, 2013.

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• The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.

  Matthew West

  Christian, People, Together

  FaceBook post by Matthew West from Mar 04, 2015

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• A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Inspirational, Friendship, Gratitude

  "Ethics and Citizenship". Book by John Walter Wayland, p. 208, 1924.

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• People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone.

  Megan Fox

  Fake Friends, Fake People, Hate

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• If I am transparent enough to myself, then I can become less afraid of those hidden selves that my transparency may reveal to others. If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. It is enough that I must die alone. I am determined to let down my walls, whatever the risks, if it means that I may have whatever is there for me.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Wall, Mean, Self

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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  Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

  Henry Rollins

  Lonely, People, Loner

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• you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self

  David Archuleta

  Lonely, Loneliness, Self

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• if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

  Richard Yates

  Honesty, Done, All Alone

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• Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

  Voltaire

  Marriage, Humorous, Being Single

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• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Self Esteem, Self Worth

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.178, Stanford University Press

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• The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

  Marya Mannes

  Loneliness, Space, Omission

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• Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

  Robert Genn

  Creativity, Artist, Imagination

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• I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a
  full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy
  ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

  Jim Harrison

  Loneliness, Passion, Grandfather

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• Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

  Roy Orbison

  Lonely, Sadness, Way

  Alex Orbison, Roy Orbison, Wesley Orbison (2017). “The Authorized Roy Orbison: The Authorized Biography”, p.643, Hachette UK

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• Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

  Carl Jung

  Healing, Solitude, Life Worth Living

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• You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

  Warsan Shire

  Love, Beautiful, Women

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• God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

  Paul Valery

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Drinking

  "Mauvaises Pensées et Autres". Book by Paul Valery, 1941.

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• Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Loneliness, Gathering, Being Lonely

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• I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

  Tim Burton

  Creativity, Caves, World

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.36, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

  Steven Berkoff

  Loneliness, Writing, Being Lonely

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• Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

  Suzy Kassem

  Feeling Alone, Standing Alone, Stand Alone

  "Truth Is Crying" by Suzy Kassem, 2008.

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