Quotes About Being Alone

#1. As much I love to imagine being alone in an orderly lab, I also know you can't stay in there forever and expect to do good work. Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment.

Sara Zarr

#2. He didn't love her. They were together for the obvious and timeless reason: It was slightly less painful than being alone.

Gary Shteyngart

#3. Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone
and maybe that needed to change.

Alexandra Bracken

#4. He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a President moves free of human entanglement, human needs, human illusions; not even a President can be independent of those around him.

Tom Wicker

#5. When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

Andre Maurois

#6. For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

Jonathan Ames

#7. I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

Marilynne Robinson

#8. He was very short in prayer when others were present, but every sentence was like a strong bolt shot up to heaven. I have heard him say that he wearied when others were long in prayer; but, being alone, he spent much time in wrestling and prayer.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. It was that feeling that she had had walking along beside him that put the notion in her mind. It comes from being alone too much. Things matter that wouldn't if you had a regular life.

Marilynne Robinson

#10. The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

Justin Timberlake

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Girls may try to avoid being alone at all costs, including remaining in an abusive friendship.

Rachel Simmons

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

Adam Levine

#15. As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.

Bipasha Basu

#16. Being alone was what I wanted; being alone was not what I wanted.

Catherine Lacey

#17. I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city.

Kate Klise

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

Paul Tillich

#19. 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

#20. Being alone makes us stronger. That's the honest truth. But it's cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

Roberto Bolano

#21. 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

#22. But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

Joseph Conrad

#23. My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.

Eckhart Tolle

#24. 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

#25. Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

Paul Theroux

#26. 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

#27. You have mistaken being alone with loneliness. So I'm fine. Thank you for asking.

Pleasefindthis

#28. Loneliness is no excuse for compromise. Be comfortable with yourself before you choose to be with someone else just to avoid being alone.

Yadin Kaufmann

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. But that was something, wasn't it? It was good to be needed. It was better than being alone. It even felt good to be used. Being used brought you deep inside the machinery of the world.

Christopher Bram

#32. I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Chantal Kreviazuk

#33. Independence doesn't have to mean being alone.

Melissa Belle

#34. 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

#35. Being alone is better than being your whore.

Lori Jenessa Nelson

#36. 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

#37. The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.

Eckhart Tolle

#38. I felt alone, but not in a bad way. I really liked being alone. Maybe I liked it too much. Maybe

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#39. Don't you ever just have those days where even if you don't really like someone, you might as well hang out with them because right then, it's better than being alone?

Brenna Yovanoff

#40. I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

Lena Headey

#41. 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

#42. I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.

Anne Lamott

#43. Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.

Beth Revis

#44. 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

#45. Nobody likes being alone. I just hate to be disappointed.

Haruki Murakami

#46. It would be so easy to stop getting up. To stop washing. To stop eating. Being alone required such constant effort.

Rachel Joyce

#47. 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

#48. He wished at that moment that his whole life had not been a secret, that lots of people were like him, instead of his being alone in a world where everyone was secure in their place as either woman or man. His aloneness was what made him feel ashamed, and he did not know why it had to be so.

Kathleen Winter

#49. 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

#50. She was so much better at being alone; being alone came more naturally to her. She led a life of deliberate solitude, and if occasional loneliness crept in, she knew how to work her way out of that particular divot. Or even better, how to sink in and absorb its particular comforts.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#51. At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone ... I became a loner in my own mind ... I decided I'd rather be alone.

Andy Warhol

#52. Too many women have gone through. I am at last alone without being alone.

Charles Bukowski

#53. Being alone at night is scary sometimes.

Leo Santa Cruz

#54. It frightens me about being alone with Cal, at least in daylight. But when night falls, there's no one I'd rather see.

Victoria Aveyard

#55. Being alone doesn't necessarily mean that you're lonely.

Tyler Perry

#56. I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

Cindy Williams

#57. But if we make it through this together, we'll be stronger. If we make it through this alone, we'll just be better at being alone.

Priscilla West

#58. I should never have loved him . I should never love anyone because it ends up being worse than being alone.

Brian James

#59. Being brave and being alone aren't the same thing.

Lyndsay Faye

#60. 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

#61. 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

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

Alison Pace

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#64. Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone."
"Shut up shut up ... Everybody's alone."
He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.

Theodore Sturgeon

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. Looks aren't all there is in the world, my lady. They are certainly no protection against being alone. Hearts never see through the eyes. (Sebastian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#68. 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

#69. 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

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

Jean De La Bruyere

#71. 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

#72. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

Celine Dion

#73. 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

#74. I don't mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you're always alone, you get lonely.

Colleen Houck

#75. When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.

Emily Giffin

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. Being alone wasn't nearly as lonely as being with people who didn't love you

Josh Lanyon

#79. Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

Orson Welles

#80. 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

#81. Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that room alone, then you can absolutely forget about it after you add another person.

Bryant McGill

#82. You don't learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

Lev Grossman

#83. So this was what being alone was like, she thought. ... It was this wandering in a sea of people with the anchor lifted, and all of it oddly pointless and confusing.

Colm Toibin

#84. I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

John Irving

#85. 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

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

Agatha Christie

#87. While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

Dean Koontz

#88. We all do have our own reasons for being alone; in my case, I just don't like wasting my time on some assholes.

M.F. Moonzajer

#89. You know, being single is great! I don't know why we treat it like some disease we are trying to cure with a remedy of 'where is he'. I like being alone.

Drew Barrymore

#90. I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

Josh Zuckerman

#91. 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

#92. 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

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

Ava Dellaira

#94. It's just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he'd forget my water or food and I'd cry and cry and cry." She stops talking and looks out the window. "I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

Holly Black

#95. 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

#96. I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained the boat by myself because I liked being alone.

Diane Wilson

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

James Frey

#98. Maybe it wasn't about being alone. Maybe the answer wasn't about hiding from those who wanted something, but about finding those who needed help but would never considering asking.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#99. Being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

John Banville

#100. There ain't nothing wrong with being alone, which is what I am, or what I have been. It's when it turns to loneliness, when you get to feeling blue about it all, that you're in trouble. There's the problem, loneliness.

Jami Attenberg