Quotes About Being Left Alone

#1. She was the type who went to bars intent on conversation, while he was the type who went in hopes of being left alone.

Sue Grafton

#2. And what was I panicking about anyway? Being left alone with myself? I'd rather have a vampire around?

Well. Yes.

Robin McKinley

#3. Mom was just teasing when she asked whether I felt safe being left alone in a haunted house. But now I know: once you move into one, you're never really alone again.

Paige McKenzie

#4. So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

Anna Godbersen

#5. I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.

Nelson Gidding

#6. Things do not get better by being left alone.

Winston Churchill

#7. There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Knut Hamsun

#8. Being left alone - and I am being left alone - isn't quite as much what I wanted as I thought. Is this how people become evil? I don't want to be.

Jo Walton

#9. I just ... I've fantasized about peace and quiet for so long, dreamt about being left alone ... but when the TV was off, and the sun was down ... I'm in a full sob right now. I've just never felt so alone, and I couldn't take it.

Andrea Randall

#10. I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.

Catherine Stock

#11. I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

Peter Robinson

#12. The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#13. I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.

Courtney Milan

#14. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

James Russell Lowell

#15. I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

Christina Ricci

#16. Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

David Levithan

#17. and Ivan Ilyich was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and that this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being. With

Leo Tolstoy

#18. I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and I'd be left all alone.

Haruki Murakami

#19. Now only the kitchen and I are left. It's just a little nicer than being all alone.

Banana Yoshimoto

#20. If love is universal, no one can be left out.

Deepak Chopra

#21. Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

Firoozeh Dumas

#22. 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

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

John Banville

#24. I like being on my own. I mean, I'm sure a Pack's best for some dogs, but I've walked alone since I left my Pup Pack. I can look after myself.

Erin Hunter

#25. I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

Greta Garbo

#26. The passion of being forever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#27. 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

#28. The man at the end of the bar was looking at me. ... Should I get drunk and sleep with him now? But I could see that I would regret that so much I would want to die after. I didn't want to get involved with anyone, and I didn't want to bear being alone with the warmth left by someone long gone.

Fuminori Nakamura

#29. Help me out," I pleaded. "You've left me alone to deal with this situation, and now we're being dealt the consequences."
I swore I heard Tom growl. I actually pulled the phone from my ear to stare at it to make sure it hadn't turned into a tiny lion.

Laura Kreitzer

#30. What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?

Jess Walter

#31. When my mother died and left me all alone, I began to realize that some things, like being loved, were more important than one's image, money, and accomplishments.

J. Matthew Nespoli

#32. The question was how you ignored someone's request to be left alone - even if it meant jeopardizing the friendship. It was a wretched little koan: How can you help someone who won't be helped while realizing that if you don't try to help, then you're not being a friend at all?

Hanya Yanagihara

#33. The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#34. Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.

Carlo Dossi

#35. How do I know you'll stay? How do I know, if I let myself love you, that one day there wouldn't be someone else, something else, and you'd just walk away? I can handle being alone now, I know how. But I can't
I won't be left again.

Nora Roberts

#36. 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

#37. The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.

Rajneesh

#38. I suppose the first big shift in my life was when, at the age of 8, my father left my mother, leaving her alone with two daughters to bring up. That taught me the importance of women being financially independent. You never know what might happen.

Cherie Blair

#39. The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Lilith Saintcrow

#40. Beings, likely to be left alone, need to be fortified and furnished within themselves, and educationand thought have tended more and more to regard these beings as related to absolute being ...

Margaret Fuller

#41. I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.

Jessica Sorensen

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

Andrew Wyeth

#45. He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Patrick Suskind

#46. Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

Robert Genn

#47. The passion for being for ever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible. I can entertain myself quite well for weeks together, hardly aware, except for the pervading peace, that I have been alone at all.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#48. It's not that I mind being alone, not really. I can distract myself with silly fantasies and daydreams for hours, but in the end it always comes back to me. That's what I'm left with: just me. And that's what scares me more than anything. Me.

Cat Clarke