Top 100 Quotes About To Be Alone
#1. Big results require big ambitions. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. - ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Bob Proctor
#2. To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.
Thomas Lansing Masson
#3. It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
Jules Verne
#4. God did not create you to be alone. He deposited skills, knowledge, and talents in someone out there who is expected to mentor you, teach you and encourage you to go high. Go, get a mentor!
Israelmore Ayivor
#5. write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda
Ernest Hemingway,
#6. One of the benefits of TM, Agatha had said, was that it enabled you to be "alone with your thoughts." But as I quickly discovered, a lot of my thoughts were not anything I wanted to be alone with.
Susan Jane Gilman
#7. Hey, Hot Stuff, Can't wait till you get over that guy you were with. He sounds like a real jerk. Hope it's soon. You're way too tasty to be alone for too long. Come find me. I'm out here waiting. Your Future
Greg Behrendt
#8. I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.
Mary MacLane
#9. If I could have put what I was feeling into words, the words would have been an infant's wail: I don't want to be alone. I want someone to want me. I'm lonely. I'm scared. I need to be loved, to be touched, to be held.
Olivia Laing
#10. I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.
Lois Battle
#11. She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
L.M. Montgomery
#12. There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.
Thomas Browne
#13. I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.
Joshua Slocum
#14. I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now."
"All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.
Alexandra Bracken
#15. I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.
Virginia Woolf
#16. The worst kind of loneliness is when you're unable to be where you want to be, where you wouldn't have to be alone.
Jeff Backhaus
#17. In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
John Barrymore
#18. The most popular Valentine's Day gift is chocolate. In the 1800's, doctors told their patients to eat chocolate to get over a broken heart. They also thought if you're going to be alone, who cares if you get fat.
Craig Ferguson
#19. I want to be alone with my thought.
Homer
#20. Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.
Eugene O'Neill
#22. Can people do that? Can people want to be with someone all the time, okay most of the time and yet also wish they were alone? And not in little compartments but at once? At the same time? All the time? I want to be alone but I need not to be.
Marlon James
#23. IsoldA: The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already.
Victor Pelevin
#24. The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.
Joel Henry Hildebrand
#26. I consider giving her crap about her lack of organizational skills, but decided not to. It took some major balls to be alone with a punk like me.
Katie McGarry
#27. It's better to be alone and keep your dignity than to be in a relationship where you always sacrifice your self respect.
Auliq Ice
#28. I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind
Seneca.
#29. I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!
Simon Mawer
#30. Sometimes I dream to be alone and that nobody would talk to me. But I understand that football is really important and that everybody watches it. When you're famous, you have to do photos or autographs, especially for the kids.
Mario Balotelli
#31. A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.
Jose Andres
#32. You must not be alone; for to be alone is to be full of fears amd alarms.
Bram Stoker
#33. That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.
William Shakespeare
#34. It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
Joan Of Arc
#35. When you learn how to be alone you'll discover the difference between alone and lonely.
L.J. Vanier
#36. Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne
#37. Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.
Eva Braun
#38. But I didn't call to him for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and as far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#39. That's when I realize how much I don't want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport..
Carrie Jones
#40. Do what we will, we are alone. The sooner we learn that, the better; and the more we are fit to be alone with ourselves, the more we are respectful to the individuality of others, and therefore the more we are fit to associate with our kind. This was a paradox she would have to learn for ourselves.
Howard Spring
#41. If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.
Gillian Flynn
#42. It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.
Arthur Phillips
#43. The city is just too big and too full of people to be alone.
Joe Meno
#44. For love, we've got to be alone, together. We've got to close out everyone else.
Stuart Miller
#45. School is so overwhelming - you can get lost in the idea that yes, you are going to be alone.
Tobias Segal
#46. I'd loved to be alone with you, but then I guess that'd make us together.
Jasmine Sandozz
#47. It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.
Dirk Benedict
#48. I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.
Lee Krasner
#49. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
Henry Miller
#50. All I needed was to be alone and quiet and in the dark, so that my mind could concentrate itself of fearful things, and it could not be unconcentrated sometimes until daylight.
Wendell Berry
#51. Don't get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I am the popular girl and really pretty, and friends can't wait to talk to me. -Madisyn
Tara Michener
#52. Well, maybe that was fate. Maybe she was meant to be alone. She was a runner, and wasn't that the habit of a person who preferred to be on her own?
Alice Hoffman
#53. He knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be alone.
J.M. Coetzee
#54. If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
Alicia Keys
#55. Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself ... To putter is to discover.
Alexandra Stoddard
#56. I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.
Cindy Williams
#57. And just like that, he's gone. Gone. And I'm alone again. So alone that it aches. And I'm probably going to be alone forever.
Tonya Fitzharris
#58. There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.
Larry McMurtry
#59. I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.
China Mieville
#60. They have courses teaching you foreign languages and ballroom dancing and etiquette and cooking. But there are no classes to learn how to be by yourself in a furnished room with chipped dishes, or how to be alone in general without any words of concern or familiar sounds.
Irmgard Keun
#61. So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.
Anna Neagle
#62. Teddy bears are best because they understand it's nice to be alone.
Sloane Crosley
#63. If you're afraid to be alone, you are alone.
Marty Rubin
#64. Sometimes we think we want to be alone, when really all we want is the right person to be alone with.
Jeannine Allison
#65. To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.
Rajneesh
#66. He was also the only adult male in my life who I'd never so much as flirted with, which gave him a special place in my heart. And made me a bit hesitant to be alone with him. Old habits are hard to break.
Nicole Castle
#67. I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.
Ma Jian
#68. A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness.
Graham Moore
#69. Connor bangs his head back sharply against the wall, hoping to jar loose the bad thoughts clinging to his brain. This is not a good place to be alone with your thoughts. Perhaps that's why Hayden feels compelled to talk.
Neal Shusterman
#70. I went to a box room at the top of the house and locked myself in, in order to be alone with my aching miseries.
H.G.Wells
#71. The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which is pathological. Whether there may be other criteria of emotional maturity, like the capacity to be alone, is seldom taken into account.
Anthony Storr
#72. I came here because I didn't want to be alone anymore" I answered him. "That's a good reason" he murmured.
Leila Sales
#73. I'm not sure if it's better to be alone but it's probably safer.
Eleanor Prescott
#74. The old man," I said at length, "is the type and the genius of deep crime. He refuses to be alone. He is the man of the crowd. It will be in vain to follow, for I shall learn no more of him, nor of his deeds.
Edgar Allan Poe
#75. Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
Roger Rosenblatt
#76. I think of what the lakes meant to me then and what they mean to me now. In the middle of the lake, I'm completely present. I'm no longer afraid to be alone. I've conditioned myself to the lake, to the cold, to the pain of it. I can hold it. I've made it mine.
Jessica J. Lee
#77. She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.
Joyce Ballou Gregorian
#78. In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
George Eliot
#79. There is no loneliness more lonely than to be alone in a crowd. No awkwardness more unsettling than the inside joke you do not comprehend.
Claire North
#80. The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.
William Wharton
#82. God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.
Nikolai A. Berdyaev
#83. If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.
Gautama Buddha
#84. I've always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I'm not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.
Sara Quin
#85. Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.
Jens Jensen
#86. It's impossible to want what I want and in the shape I want it, and share life with others besides. I had to know how to be alone and how to let so much wanting do its work, save me or destroy me ...
Julio Cortazar
#87. Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.
Joyce Carol Oates
#88. I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF.
Terry Pratchett
#89. The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.
Francis Picabia
#90. It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.
Frederick Lenz
#91. 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
#92. You don't know what it's like to be alone until you've had someone inside your head.
Ann Aguirre
#93. Before meeting you, I didn't know what it was like to feel lonely. I never even considered myself to be alone. That's because when you feel lonely, it means that there is someone for you to miss.
Yuuki Obata
#94. But if I didn't want to be alone, then why didn't I want to be with anyone else?
David Levithan
#95. You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.
Dennis Quaid
#97. Better to go hungry than to be alone. Because when you're alone - and I'm talking here
about an enforced solitude not of our choosing - it's as if you were no longer part of the
human race
Paulo Coelho
#98. To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven.
Mother Teresa
#99. The threat of rain appears to have nothing to do with Joao Elvas's desire to be alone, and one must not forget that, strange as it may seem, some men can spend their entire life alone and enjoy solitude, especially if it is raining and their crust is hard.
Jose Saramago
#100. It suddenly occurred to him that for the first time in years, they were about to be alone together for more than five minutes.
Just the two of them. On a small jet. Tens of thousands of feet in the air.
Christ.
Maybe he should've packed a parachute, just in case.
Elle Kennedy
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