Quotes About Spend Time Alone

#1. It is not easy to shut out the world, set aside a few minutes by yourself, and spend time in God's Word and prayer. But it is essential if we are to grow in our relationship with God and be strengthened for the battles ahead. Don't delay. Begin now to spend time alone with God every day.

Billy Graham

#2. I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

Amy Sedaris

#3. Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Six Secrets to Being a Successful Humorist 1. Be scared, unhappy, and an outcast as a kid. 2. Drop out of high school. 3. Spend time alone. 4. Don't take a comedy course. 5. Read other humorists but don't worship them. 6. Don't get your hopes up.

Bruce McCall

#5. The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

Robin S. Sharma

#6. I'm not saying dating is sinful, and I'm not saying a guy and a girl should never spend time alone together. I'm saying let's wait until we can be purposeful, so there's a reason behind our relationship, and we're not just stirring up passion for the sake of a good time.

Joshua Harris

#7. There is also a third blessing that comes from spending time alone with God. When we spend time alone with Him, this releases all God's potential, His power, grace and anointing, all of which are so essential for doing work for the Kingdom of God.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

Jewel

#9. If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.

George Dyson

#10. I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Olivia Wilde

#11. Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads

Ronald T. Potter-Efron

#12. Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place for baby to spend time playing alone.

Magda Gerber

#13. I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

Rami Malek

#14. Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

Rachel Cohn

#15. When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

Vikram Chandra

#16. The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

Charles Stanley

#17. She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.

Guy De Maupassant

#18. Why did you do this? You could lose your job or worse."
"I wanted to spend some time alone with you. Tomorrow, you might be leaving for good." He leaned down and pressed his lips to hers. Reluctantly, he pulled away. "You're worth the risk.

Julia Crane

#19. When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

Meg Cabot

#20. I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

Henry Rollins

#21. I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

Madeleine Stowe

#22. Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

Ruth Ozeki

#23. [T]he people who are close to Allah worry so much about wasting time that they call themselves to account for every breath they spend - how many of us wonder about how we spend our day, let alone each breath?

Ethar El-Katatney

#24. The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.'

Sarah Paulson

#25. Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

Anna Nicole Smith

#26. And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

John Irving

#27. Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

#28. To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

Donna Tartt

#29. If you've just left a place of difficulty, don't then move into the shadows, alone with your thoughts. Spend your time with friends, or even just people who care about you. It might feel more self-protective to isolate yourself, but the reality is that you need to let the light in.

Sally Hanan

#30. Over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And LIBERTARIANS had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone.

Clint Eastwood

#31. I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

David Brainerd

#32. Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own.

Lights

#33. I would rather spend one life time with you than face all of the ages of this world alone

J.R.R. Tolkien

#34. Tell me what time you spend alone with God ...
and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.

Leonard Ravenhill

#35. Do not whine ... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Joan Didion

#36. I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Johnny Cash

#37. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

Mitch Albom

#38. Do not expect to grow in holiness if you spend little time alone with God and do not take His Word seriously.

Joel Beeke

#39. Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin to warp.

Anne Lamott

#40. I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

Anne Lamott

#41. I spend so much time alone that whenever I see my shadow I feel crowded.

Dov Davidoff

#42. In one sense. I prefer to be alone. No. That's not true. There are a few people - five, at most - with whom I could happily spend days at a time. Otherwise I've always been a creature of solitude. Not an outcast - not always. But I am not at home as part of a throng, the way some people are. The

Kelly Gardiner

#43. To the traditional traveller - let alone travel writer - this might seem absurd. The whole point of travel is to go deep. To spend time in a place, to get under its skin. How can one possibly appreciate what makes a city or a country tick in a bare ten hours

Hugh Thomson

#44. You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.

Ben Gibbard

#45. I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.

William S. Burroughs

#46. Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Denis Waitley

#47. I need to spend a bit of time with you as well, alone and without any terrible music blaring in our ears. How can people possibly like that?

Paulo Coelho

#48. Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

Robert Anderson

#49. You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I do love talking to people about the book, but ideally, I like a little less disruptive lifestyle, I like it when things are more organized.

Garance Dore

#50. Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#51. Tell me, love, what I can't explain:
Should I spend this short, horrid time
with thoughts only, and alone
know no love and give none?
Must one think? Won't he be missed?

Ingeborg Bachmann

#52. No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

Mitch Albom

#53. I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

Bjork

#54. It's a very weird job to have as a musician, because you spend long periods of time alone and then you have to go work with people for a long period of time and present your music after you've been making it by yourself. It's a very drastic phase.

Angel Deradoorian

#55. Bloody Americans. Why did they have to DATE? Why couldn't they just spend their time ignoring each other, like the English? If he'd stayed in London he would never have met anyone. he'd be alone and unhappy, like me, but at least he wouldn't be DATING.

Lucy Robinson

#56. We're born alone and we die alone. So in between, let's spend time with people that make us feel good ... or at least put-out.

Dov Davidoff

#57. Spend some amount of time alone everyday.

Dalai Lama

#58. Prayer is the time you spend alone with God.

Art Hochberg

#59. We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

Amanda Seyfried

#60. Spend a long time alone, especially if you're someone who's never been that social to begin with, and you find yourself craving solitude.

Ron Rash

#61. Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

Warren Christopher

#62. I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#63. A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!

Guy De Maupassant

#64. Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

Cassandra Clare

#65. I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I'm never lonely.

George Lopez

#66. Any time I get to spend with you alone, away from school and the pressures of classes and stuff I've gotta do, is you spoiling me. Seriously, Mikey. All I need is you.

Melyssa Winchester

#67. Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

Richard E. Grant

#68. As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.

Elisabeth Shue

#69. The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God ... It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth.

John Mott

#70. I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.

Dan Gilroy

#71. Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.

Steve Goodier

#72. If man will understand the real essence of staying in the solitude with his Maker alone, he will never spend all his time with the crowd always

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#73. Spend some time alone every day.

Dalai Lama XIV

#74. Eternity is a frightfully long time to spend alone.

P.S. Clinen

#75. Distance is not for the fearful, it's for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those who know a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough

Meghan Daum

#76. The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the kids to bed and have an hour and a half in the evening for myself.

Helen McCrory

#77. Rand Paul is taking a week-long break from talking to the media to spend time with his family before he officially announces that he is running for president. Because nothing motivates you to be on the road for two straight years like a week alone with your family.

Jimmy Fallon

#78. I am a . . . solitary . . . man, he said. 'I do not suffer fools gladly, and I prefer to spend my time alone with a book and a decanter of brandy.

Andy Lane

#79. How we feel about our own self, how well or little we know our own self, whether we feel alive inside, largely determine the quality of the time we spend alone, as well as the quality of the relationships we have with other people.

Stephanie Dowrick

#80. Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

Caroline Knapp