Of Being Alone Quotes

#1. The Answer is that I am afraid
...

Afraid of Connection with human beings
Afraid of Being Alone
Afraid of be with my opinion

Deyth Banger

#2. Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone - so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.

H.M. Ward

#3. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

David Levithan

#4. I'm so fucking tired of being alone. I was scared that he'd tell me to fucking leave. Because that means going back to a life I can't see for myself anymore.

Krista Ritchie

#5. Almost always, jealousy is rooted in some sort of fear: of abandonment, of being replaced, of losing the attention of someone you love, of being alone. Jealousy isn't really about the person you feel jealous of. It's about you: your feeling that you might lose something precious.

Franklin Veaux

#6. Memory is the happiness of being alone.

Lois Lowry

#7. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six; we were of that disposition

Nick Hornby

#8. The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

Andy Rooney

#9. The whole world is based on fear, even behind the jealousy of the day before lay dear. Fear of being alone, fear of being abandoned, fear of life, fear of being trapped in tragedy, fear of the animal in us, fear of one's hatred, of committing a crime, fear of cancer, of syphilis, of starvation.

Anais Nin

#10. Fear of being alone is not a good reason to stay

Cheryl Strayed

#11. I had a fear of being alone.

Gloria Gaynor

#12. He nudged her with his shoulder but didn't say anything. They stayed like that for a while, enjoying the silence of being alone and enjoying each other's presence. It was easy ... and comfortable.

Kimberly Derting

#13. The truth is there's always been someone to tell me what to do. The church. The people who I work for. The caseworker. And I can't stand the idea of being alone. I can't bear the thought of being free.
Survivor

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. Can you lose everything, you ever had planned?
Can you sit down again, and play another hand?
Could you risk everything, for the chance of being alone?
Under pressure find the grace, or would you come undone?
That's how legends are made, at least that's what they say?

Bryan Adams

#15. I've never been afraid of being alone. For the sake of my work, I must be!

Ochiai Naoyuki

#16. Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

D.H. Lawrence

#17. You said on my birthday that you were afraid of being alone, but I've been here this whole time. This whole time.

Stephanie Perkins

#18. Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.

Neel Burton

#19. Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

John Berger

#20. The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

James Baldwin

#21. I don't love Beau yet, I don't think. But being with him feels like a better version of being alone, and in that way, I think we are each other's.

Emily Henry

#22. If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.

Rajneesh

#23. When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

Lucy Grealy

#24. I know no greater delight than the sheer delight of being alone.

D.H. Lawrence

#25. I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure ... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one ...

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#26. Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

Soren Kierkegaard

#27. I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Claire Danes

#28. There was a strong sense of being alone, in wintry deadness. Nothing made sense in any direction.

Donna Tartt

#29. You say that I'm afraid of being alone, and it's true. I am. And I'm not proud of it. But you need to take a good look at yourself, Anna, because I am NOT the only one in this room who suffers this problem.

Stephanie Perkins

#30. Her mother ... told Kate that after women got out of lousy marriages, they generally had the good sense to stay away from the institution altogether. While men just kept trying to get it right because they were incapable of being alone.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#31. 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

#32. I love this constant motion between ' Solitude' and ' Loneliness '. On one end it's the desire and achievement of being alone ( glorious) on the other it's the utter despair and pain of being alone..

Anubhav Mishra

#33. Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don't want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.

Alex Rosa

#34. Life was the gift that you were given the day you were born, and in turn you are the gift to life. Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart.

Forrest Curran

#35. For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. One can no longer cheat - hide behind the hours spent at the office or at the plant (those hours we protest so loudly, which protect us so well from the pain of being alone).

Albert Camus

#36. In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

Per Petterson

#37. Truthfully we were alone only in the ways Westerners speak of being alone in Africa, as if the few hundred locals by whom they are almost always surrounded are part of the landscape, instead of part of humanity.

Alexandra Fuller

#38. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.

David Levithan

#39. Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#40. I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

Montgomery Clift

#41. Let me come in, please. I'm tired of being alone.

Katherine Allred

#42. I'm into horror pictures because I love the fear of being alone in the dark, and I'd recommend that to any composer who wants to work in this genre.

Christopher Young

#43. THERE CAME AGAIN, during that following spring and summer, the feeling that Angelene had almost forgotten, of being alone in the orchard, of being utterly herself.

Amanda Coplin

#44. If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.

Lee Strobel

#45. People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

#46. Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.

C.J. Sansom

#47. I am afraid. I'm afraid of everything. I'm afraid of the dark, of closed-in spaces, of being alone and of getting too close. I'm afraid that I'll never again have the life I've always known, my feet in the dust and my heart full. I'm afraid of being alive; I'm afraid to die.

Vikki Wakefield

#48. But he felt the relief of being alone as well ... the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being temporary, is a kind of pleasure.

Alan Hollinghurst

#49. I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

Jennifer Lopez

#50. I no longer have the fear of being alone. It's cool to find out that you don't need a boyfriend to be happy.

Drew Barrymore

#51. I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Robert Plant

#52. To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)

Fernando Pessoa

#53. When women survive an awful marriage or love affair, and all that shit, they generally avoid another relationship for quite some time. With men, however, it is just the opposite; the moment they finish a catastrophe they start looking for another one. Men are incapable of being alone.

Elif Shafak

#54. I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.

Mercedes Lackey

#55. Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of being alone.

Philip Pullman

#56. Your life, sir, is propelled
By a dream of the fear of having nightmares; your love
Is the fear of being alone; your world's history
The fear of a possible leap by a possible antagonist
Out of a possible shadow, or a not-improbable
Skeleton out of your dead-certain cupboard.

Christopher Fry

#57. There, I've said it, and I said it in front of all these strange and quite scary women and that guy, because I'm less frightened of them than I am of being alone with you and you turning me down.

Rowan Coleman

#58. She's never really wanted to be the only person, she's never been such a fan of being alone.

Alison Pace

#59. And i can't stand the idea of being alone.
i can't bear the thought of being free.

Chuck Palahniuk

#60. Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

Winona Ryder

#61. The table seemed to have risen a little toward the sky like a mechanical dancing platform, giving the people around it a sense of being alone with each other in the dark universe, nourished by its only food, warmed by its only lights.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#62. Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

Doris Lessing

#63. On the Sufi path, first you discover the art of being alone amid the crowd. Next you discover the crowd within your solitude - the voices inside you.

Elif Shafak

#64. All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Jean De La Bruyere

#65. I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope.

David Levithan

#66. If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?

Ayn Rand

#67. 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

#68. The sound of darkness was certainly intricately linked to the sense of being alone but unrelated to this was the sound of the palpitations of men and women experiencing the sense of utter solitude. There was no doubt about it. This was a sound audible only on evenings such as this.

Shusaku Endo

#69. She had often been alone in the house before - but she had never before been so conscious of being alone in it.

Agatha Christie

#70. Tonight had taught her one thing. She was tired of being alone. She was tired of working so hard and then coming home to an empty house with no one to share her day with.

Kathleen Brooks

#71. Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart. Only in the moments of pain, do we begin to empathize with humankind. Only when you are lost, you will find new meaning. Float on.

Forrest Curran

#72. I said I love you
when what I meant to say was
"I'm afraid of being alone."
I said I need you
when what I meant to say was
"I need to learn how to love myself.

Sade Andria Zabala

#73. I loved the feeling of being alone together in the car, like we could go anywhere we wanted. Just us.

Ava Dellaira

#74. I love the process of being alone in a room.

James Frey

#75. I wish you were here. Or that I was there. I wish that there was some chance of talking like this after tonight, or seeing each other. Like, really seeing each other. Of being alone, together.

Rainbow Rowell

#76. For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.

Jane Goodall

#77. I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

Katharine Hepburn

#78. 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

#79. I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone - a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.

J.D. Salinger

#80. 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

#81. I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

Oren Peli

#82. 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

#83. It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Jodie Foster

#84. She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different.

Mervyn Peake

#85. Getting married had been all his idea, but he hadn't told her how very afraid of it he was. He seemed to need to force his way through it anyway, as he did with everything that scared him terribly. He was afraid of marriage and he was afraid of being alone, too.

Paula McLain

#86. Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

#87. I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

Adam Levine

#88. All the great sadnesses, great temptations, and great mistakes are almost always the result of being alone in life, without a prudent friend to advise us when we are troubled by something more serious than our normal everyday problems.

Jose Saramago

#89. In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Rollo May

#90. Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man's being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

#91. We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

Sara Maitland

#92. I think anything like that-
which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone-
people always feel sad. Is it because we've lost the art of being alone?

Andrew Wyeth

#93. The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression.

Bell Hooks

#94. I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

Christopher Buckley

#95. Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.

D.H. Lawrence

#96. I was so tired of being alone, but I was always alone, even when I was with people around me. And I was so tired of being surrounded, but I was always surrounded, even when I was by myself.

Maggie Stiefvater

#97. No one ever asks "Why are you married?" even though the question is just as valid as "Why are you single?" After all, people marry for many reasons other than pure love--fear of being alone, a desire for biological children, economic security, social status, health insurance.

Sara Eckel

#98. 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

#99. Everyone has experienced alienation - at some point you go through a moment where you say: "I just want to be left alone." And what is the ultimate point of being alone? - it's dying, of course.

Tobias Segal

#100. You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

Jonathan Tropper