I'm Alone But Not Lonely Quotes

#1. I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.

Oliver

#2. I do want someone, need someone. You're right. And, when I'm with you, I feel like I'm a better person. I feel happier. Less alone, less lonely. But it's not as simple as that, is it? Being with someone?

Naomi Campbell

#3. I felt alone, but not especially lonely. I guess I just took that for granted.

Haruki Murakami

#4. As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time is reading a good novel, alone

Rita Stradling

#5. The fact is, there's a difference between being alone and being lonely; I may not of been completely alone in life, but I was definitely lonely.

Brent Hartinger

#6. Carmen: I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to do the leaving, and not have you ever leave me.

Ann Brashares

#7. Solitude, what a sad and beautiful thing it is! How beautiful when we choose it! How sad when it is forced upon us year after year! Some strong men are not lonely when they are alone, but I, who am weak, am lonely when I have no friends.

Emmanuel Bove

#8. There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.

Steve V. Cypert

#9. I've learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I'm alone and I've never been so content.

Melinda Salisbury

#10. I don't know why I still feel this pit in my stomach whenever I get a moment to think. I know what the pit is, too; I feel lonely. But I'm not alone, I keep telling myself.

Pittacus Lore

#11. Alone again. But not lonely. This was my fate. I'd reached a point so low that I actually stopped wishing for relief. Hope was dangerous. Giving up was self-preservation. I was better off trusting no one.

Riley Jean

#12. I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

Haruki Murakami

#13. There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.

Alfa H

#14. I'm lonely, but everyone is lonely
So at least I know I'm not alone.

Eyedea

#15. I'm not alone. But I'm lonely.
I always want more.
More what? More attention, more affection, more interest.
You mean more men.
I always want more men.

Mark William Lindberg

#16. You know that I love you quite a lot --
But sometimes... not. Sometimes not.
I don't know why.
I guess I
Just hate you sometimes,
Because sometimes I even hate myself,
And she loves you.

Margo T. Rose

#17. I am happy to be alone.
Perhaps this is true.
Or perhaps I am the biggest coward of all.

Heather Day Gilbert

#18. I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

Bruce Willis

#19. 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

#20. I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)

Sherman Alexie

#21. I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#22. I was lonely at times, but not alone.

Camille Pagan

#23. I liked to tinker with things, like Father. Make things with my hands. I liked to be alone, but not to be lonely. You were my only friend. You and Dutch.

Sharon Lynn Fisher

#24. There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?

Alan Bradley

#25. I know lonely can be hard, but the longer you stay in the wrong relationship, the longer it will take for the right one to find you. Don't stay in a relationship that doesn't build you up.

Elizabeth Bourgeret

#26. It doesn't mean anything;
It doesn't change anything,
Except the way I see myself,
And it's not supposed to do that.
I shouldn't feel this way;
I should cry this way,
But I kind of do.
Yeah, I kind of do.

Margo T. Rose

#27. So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

Martin Amis

#28. I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.

L.M. Montgomery

#29. I have continued to come here for that kind of aloneness, so very different from being lonely with someone.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

#30. And I played music through the night, alone, echoing through the halls. My life, alive through note.

Jonathan P. Lamas

#31. I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

Mary Martin

#32. People sometimes ask me if I do not feel lonely on holidays. How can I feel lonely when I live in the constant awareness of God's presence? I love and I enjoy being with people, but when I am alone I enjoy being alone with God.

Peace Pilgrim

#33. It is not they who have closed but I. I've cut myself away. I'm alone, and lonely. What frightens me is that I've not become lonely now, but have looked inside and seen that I was, already. How long has that been going on?

China Mieville