Top 100 Being Alone Is Quotes
#1. The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.
Daniel Clowes
#2. Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
Tom Sizemore
#3. As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.
Jodie Foster
#4. The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
Andy Rooney
#6. Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.
Parmenides
#7. I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.
Diana Wynne Jones
#8. Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
Martin Heidegger
#9. Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, isn't it? In the end you'll be absolutely alone; therefore, being alone is natural. If you accept that, nothing bad can happen. That's why I shut myself away in my six-mat one-room apartment.
Tatsuhiko Takimoto
#10. Being alone is a basic need of mine like food and water, but I realize it is not so for others.
Peter Cameron
#11. I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.
Chogyam Trungpa
#12. When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.
Florence King
#13. Being alone is easier than having a family. When you have a family, you are responsible to each other. It's easier to navigate the world without that burden.
Zachary Jernigan
#14. Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.
Bryant McGill
#15. What's wrong with being alone anyway? Being alone is sometimes a great place to be, but people are always trying to correct this "problem" for you, even if you yourself don't have any kind of problem with it.
Amy Schumer
#16. And being alone is the best way to be
When I'm by myself it's the best way to be
When I'm all alone it's the best way to be
When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye
Edie Brickell
#17. Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to yourself. You are each trying to rediscover for yourselves, in your terms now - after centuries of myths and distortions - the validity of your own beings.
Seth
#18. What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice!
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#19. 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
#20. I know what you might think; that being alone is a sign of loneliness. But the way I see it, sometimes being alone serves as a period of insight as to who you really are. Think about it.
Lauren Lola
#21. First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and being alone is also beautiful. Then it is simple, too. You dont depend on others and you dont make others dependent on you.
Rajneesh
#22. When you develop the courage to stand alone..
Courage is what matters..being alone is just a number!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#24. Of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.
Zelda Popkin
#25. 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
#26. Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.
Amy Dickinson
#27. Being alone is a terrible, terrible thing. There's no one to run to, no one to confide in, no one who cares what happens to you.
Richelle Mead
#29. 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
#30. The sense of being alone is a huge issue for so many people in this world. As a worshipper of Jesus, there's a very real sense that we are always seen, held and known.
Matt Redman
#31. I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.
Kristen Schaal
#32. The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
Justin Timberlake
#33. Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death.
Dean Koontz
#34. I prize my downtime, count on it as a writer, a parent, a person. Sometimes I think of Woody Allen's remark about masturbation, that it is sex with someone he loves. I feel as though being alone is hanging out with someone I like.
Anna Quindlen
#35. I've come to learn that being alone is better than being next to someone and feeling alone.
Steve Maraboli
#36. Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.
Amelia Earhart
#37. Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.
Dean Koontz
#38. Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
Richard Linklater
#39. In the beginning, being alone is always a choice. Then it's not a choice anymore. When did it stop being a choice? What is it in me that stopped choosing you, that moved into you instead so that I have to be with you in order to be with myself?
Gunnar Ardelius
#40. Being alone is very difficult.
Yoko Ono
#41. After a stressful event, we often crave comfort food. Our body is calling for more glucose and simple carbohydrates and fat... And in modern life, people tend to have fewer friends and less support, because there's no tribe. Being alone is not good for the brain.
John J. Ratey
#42. What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.
Molly Ringwald
#43. The fear of being alone is a great obstacle to attracting the relationship that is right for you.
Charles F. Glassman
#44. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
Umar
#50. It is not being alone but being with ourselves that is the killer.
Richard Kalish
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
Henrik Ibsen
#55. This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
Waylon Jennings
#56. Freedom is just another word for being alone
M.J. Rose
#57. 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
#58. The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our
separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
Erich Fromm
#59. When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.
Don Williams
#60. 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
#61. I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
Molly Haskell
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.
Sri Aurobindo
#73. 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
#74. I'm . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.
Sara Naveed
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.
David Levithan
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#84. There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
Abraham Ibn Ezra
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#91. Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.
Alice Greczyn
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Hell is being alone for all eternity. Alone, unloved, unloving.
Tony Hendra
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.
Matthew Weiner
#100. 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
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