Top 60 Quotes About Alone But Not Lonely
#1. Now, ten or more years later, far away from her home or even any thought of having a home, she again touched the feeling from that long ago day, being alone but not lonely, of being solitary yet sufficient.
Tad Williams
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.
Bruce Willis
#6. My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of.
Banana Yoshimoto
#7. We might be all alone in the world, en effet, but that doesn't mean we have to be lonely.
Aria Beth Sloss
#8. No matter how together we are, no matter how many friends or kids or partners or dogs or goats we have, there are always moments where we not only feel alone, but lonely.
Kris Radish
#9. She'd rather be alone than settle just because she was lonely, but sometimes - not that she'd admit it to another soul - that choice sucked.
Donna Alward
#10. 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
#13. I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. But out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Writing is not 'lonely work' but "alone work'; authors are known to be reclusive and like spending time with themselves.
Brie Edison
#21. So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.
Martin Amis
#22. If only my mother had a book to hold, she wouldn't have looked so lonely. And maybe this was another reason why people read: not so they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would think they looked less lonely with a book in their hands and therefore not pity them and leave them alone.
Brock Clarke
#23. I have continued to come here for that kind of aloneness, so very different from being lonely with someone.
Shirley Rousseau Murphy
#24. We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.
We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.
Steven Wilson
#25. And I played music through the night, alone, echoing through the halls. My life, alive through note.
Jonathan P. Lamas
#26. There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.
Markus Zusak
#27. I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.
Mary Martin
#28. All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone
my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music
ensemble music, not soloism
we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#29. Just imagine, life to be a dance with different kind of rhythms depending on what music is playing in the background. Sometimes we may dance alone and that's OK, as some songs are simply meant to be danced like that. Practice! Don't stop! It's your dance!
Nico J. Genes
#30. 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
#32. The words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language ... those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.
Donald Miller
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Each of us knew that the journey to exaltation would be long, strenuous, and sometimes lonely, but we also knew that we would not travel alone. Heavenly Father provides all who fulfill the prerequisites of faith, repentance, and baptism with a companion and guide, the Holy Ghost.
Keith K. Hilbig
#36. Alone is Nothing, be Different is Everthing.
Jan Jansen
#38. Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tackle that shed, not for any price she could afford. But crying relieved her and she soon felt quite cheerful again. It was ridiculous to brood, she told herself.
Jean Rhys
#39. I felt alone, but not especially lonely. I guess I just took that for granted.
Haruki Murakami
#40. Do you know that pain of leaving when you look back expecting to see a face waving goodbye at you but all you see is a dark abandoned corner?
There won't be any reason to return then.
All you can do is look ahead and not to stumble and fall on the pit ahead waiting for you.
Sanhita Baruah
#41. 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
#42. We're lonely down here," he said. "It's true. But we're not alone.
Lauren Groff
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Francie of course became an outsider shunned by all because of her stench. But she had grown accostumed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and being considered different. She did not suffer to much.
Betty Smith
#46. 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
#47. I am happy to be alone.
Perhaps this is true.
Or perhaps I am the biggest coward of all.
Heather Day Gilbert
#48. 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
#49. Grief is such a lonely thing. There is no-one in it with you - others may grieve for the same soul, but they do not grieve exactly for what you also grieve. No-one has lost precisely what you have lost. Not exactly, never exactly. We are in it alone.
Susan Fletcher
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Rule #1 of Traveling-
Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"?
Sanhita Baruah
#54. It had filled my time - given me quiet, steadfast company with those characters, who did not exist and never would, but somehow made me feel less ... alone.
Sarah J. Maas
#56. There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.
Alfa H
#57. I'm lonely, but everyone is lonely
So at least I know I'm not alone.
Eyedea
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Part of me wanted him to be awake, but the other part of me liked this quiet feeling of being both alone and not lonely.
Maggie Stiefvater
