Being Alone Is Quotes

#1. Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#2. Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point of being a superpower if you can't do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?" The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alone.

Thomas Sowell

#3. How can anyone be called human, if being born a human being and growing in a human society, he does not recognise human values? You must see that you don't harm any living being. He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.

Sathya Sai Baba

#4. To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

Umar

#5. It is not being alone but being with ourselves that is the killer.

Richard Kalish

#6. Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in. I couldn't have lived alone before. I always needed someone to share my space but now I like being by myself. If I want to be with people then I see my friends; if I want a date then I'll have one.

Kelly Rowland

#7. Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.

Parmenides

#8. The contemporary climate is therapeutic, not religious. People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but for the feeling, the momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic security.

Christopher Lasch

#9. Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.

Sheryl Sandberg

#10. What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

Henrik Ibsen

#11. This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

Waylon Jennings

#12. Freedom is just another word for being alone

M.J. Rose

#13. The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

Terence McKenna

#14. The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our
separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

Erich Fromm

#15. When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

Don Williams

#16. Being alone is a basic need of mine like food and water, but I realize it is not so for others.

Peter Cameron

#17. I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone.

Adam Silvera

#18. I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#19. Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality

Michel De Montaigne

#20. I'm here because of the way she loves me with no reservations. She doesn't hold anything back, but gives it all to me as if there was no one else like me in the universe. She has no idea that she alone is the unique being.

Amy A. Bartol

#21. But now, I am addicted to the peace and calm of being alone. There is something so soothing about solitude that I have no urgent wish to give it up and connect with people.

Kavipriya Moorthy

#22. Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.

Bryant McGill

#23. Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

Molly Haskell

#24. Feeling alone among the many is normal.

Feeling many when you are alone, calls for a professional help. A qualified shrink can always shrink your ego down to being again alone.

Boris Zubry

#25. It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present.

Rama Swami

#26. I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others ... Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#27. I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.

Susan Wojcicki

#28. It doesn't upset me to think about dying. What upsets me is the idea of John being alone after his spell passes. The idea of one of us without the other. (p.127)

Michael Zadoorian

#29. We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, and not as ostriches nor as dogs in the manger. We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#30. The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

Sri Aurobindo

#31. Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.

Willy Brandt

#32. I'm . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.

Sara Naveed

#33. People relate to life being challenging and hard, and still trying to keep a positive attitude and keep going. If you're alone, there's nothing wrong with that. That's fine. But, finding the right person is something that you would really like and hope for.

Charlotte Ross

#34. The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future.

Patrick Hennessey

#35. The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

Peter Schjeldahl

#36. Women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities ... How long a time it took me after my divorce to understand that being alone is not the same as being lonely.

Alice Steinbach

#37. We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us less lonely. But we are at risk because it is actually the reverse: If we are unable to be alone, we will be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely. Yet

Sherry Turkle

#38. Can't you ... I don't know. Find a hobby or something?"
"Being charming is my hobby," said Adrian obstinately. "I'm the life of the party - even without drinking. I wasn't meant to be alone.

Richelle Mead

#39. Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.

David Levithan

#40. Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn't ever wish that on nobody.

Steven J. Carroll

#41. I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

Jane Smiley

#42. The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#43. There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Abraham Ibn Ezra

#44. Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.

Ken Ham

#45. Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes ... and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does not communicate by word alone.

Ray Birdwhistell

#46. You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.

Henry A. Kissinger

#47. Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ... , or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

Daniel Schorr

#48. I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together.

Erich Fromm

#49. Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

Berthold Auerbach

#50. Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.

Alice Greczyn

#51. When you develop the courage to stand alone..
Courage is what matters..being alone is just a number!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#52. The desire forcontinuity of being-loved-alone seems to me "the error bred in the bone" of man. For "there is no one-and-only, as a friend of mine once said in a similar discussion, "there are just one-and-only moments.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#53. I just tried to put myself in her place and figure out what would be the scariest thing. If I thought I might be dying. And it was being alone' ... 'To me,' she said, 'the scariest thing is oblivion. Being, and then not being.

Patricia Gaffney

#54. Experiencing those moments of being alone ... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it ... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.

Kate Winslet

#55. Part of the special challenge of being a startup is the near impossibility of having your idea, company, or product be noticed by anyone, let alone a competitor.

Eric Ries

#56. She's my other half. Like for the first time in my life, I know what being unquestionably whole feels like. And I realize that the notion that my heart beats for me alone is a lie. It beats for us.

Kim Holden

#57. Hell is being alone for all eternity. Alone, unloved, unloving.

Tony Hendra

#58. There's no such thing as being alone in the universe, and so there's no such thing as creating alone. Everything - every impulse, every creative gift of beauty, everything is a co-creation.

Gary Zukav

#59. I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.

Rafael Nadal

#60. TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

Matthew Weiner

#61. I think that if there is a hell it's just a place where you're left all alone, with nobody around you. Man, when you're alone you don't have to burn, just being by yourself for all of time would be the worst punishment the Old Man could give you

Rudolfo Anaya

#62. Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

Julie Burchill

#63. How many days have I spent alone with my cat ... and when I say alone, I mean without a material being, for my cat is a mystical companion, a spirit.

Pierre Bonnard

#64. This privilege, which he alone possesses, of being a sovereign and unique subject amidst a universe of objects, is what he shares with all his fellow-men. In turn an object for others, he is nothing more than an individual in the collectivity on which he depends.

Simone De Beauvoir

#65. A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

John Cheever

#66. Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#67. Amongst the many trials to which the human mind is subjected, that of holding intercourse, real or imaginary, with the world of spirits: of finding itself alone with a being terrific and awful, whose nature and power are unknown, has been justly considered the most severe.

Joanna Baillie

#68. The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts.

Masashi Kishimoto

#69. Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient,

Pierre Cardin

#70. In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.

Adolf Hitler

#71. What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

Terry Tempest Williams

#72. You know what your problem is?" he continued.
"What?"
"You believe a buncha different things, you've lived in a buncha different places, and now, nobody's like you."
"Thanks, Vinny. No one tells you what being unique actually means: that you'll die alone.

Elna Baker

#73. I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#74. There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Knut Hamsun

#75. The urge to immortality is not a simple reflex of the death-anxiety but a reaching out by one's whole being toward life. Perhaps this natural expansion of the creature alone can explain why transference is such a universal passion.

Ernest Becker

#76. Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death.

Dean Koontz

#77. Your voice
in this being unable to move away
from my gaze
things dispossess me
make of me a ship on a river of stones
if your voice is not
rain alone in my feverish silence
you unbind my eyes
and please
may you never stop
speaking
ever

Alejandra Pizarnik

#78. Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

Oscar Wilde

#79. The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

Robin S. Sharma

#80. Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Igor Stravinsky

#81. It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

Lord Chesterfield

#82. Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

Jules Michelet

#83. The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.

Albert Einstein

#84. An end to my fear of being alone. An end to a soul's solitude, when death at last arrives. There is something in that, something in there, that comforts. Hood,

Steven Erikson

#85. It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.

Shannon L. Alder

#86. Solitude is addictive. Being alone, but not lonely, is peaceful and inspiring. It gives you the strength to go back and deal with all the nonsense.

Karen Gibbs

#87. Morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.

Charles Bukowski

#88. Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being ... It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#89. I turned my ear toward the door because I heard him breathing. When you're alone and afraid, the simple sound of the steady in and out of air being drawn by another person is good medicine.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#90. Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.

Emily Wing Smith

#91. Being around people is exhausting. Being around Beau is like a really good version of being alone, as easy but more fun.

Emily Henry

#92. The fear of being alone is a great obstacle to attracting the relationship that is right for you.

Charles F. Glassman

#93. Being alone is a frame of mind that becomes comfortable and relatively stress free so even the prospect of socializing can seem like too much effort.

Peter W. Murphy

#94. The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.

Amy Poehler

#95. The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#96. Women are interesting, but that isn't the problem, it is that I like being alone, and I'm also touring so much that it's hard to get a relationship to work.

Ville Valo

#97. It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#98. I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.

Charlotte Eriksson

#99. Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange,
brought into being by traders
who discovered that a reliable medium
could facilitate trades that were more difficult
or even impossible by barter alone.

Lawrence Reed

#100. Truth is, I'm generally happiest when it's just me. It's okay to be madly in love with yourself.

Richelle E. Goodrich