Top 100 Time Alone Quotes
#1. The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
Walter Savage Landor
#2. 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
#3. I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.
Ken Venturi
#4. 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
#5. Do not whine ... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
Joan Didion
#7. Time alone can bring the just man to light - the criminal you can spot in just one short day.
Sophocles
#8. We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Susan L. Taylor
#9. Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God.
Vicky Beeching
#10. No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
Danielle Berry
#11. I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.
Kate Bush
#13. 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
#14. I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.
Alan Titchmarsh
#15. I was sitting by myself the other night doing the usual things one does when spending time alone with yourselves. You know, making mountains out of molehills, hiking up to the top of the mountains, having a Hostess Twinkie and then throwing myself off the mountain. Stuff like that.
Carrie Fisher
#16. 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
#17. I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.
Joseph Barbera
#18. Spending so much time alone had turned Chloe's imagination into a deep dark forest. It was a magical place to escape to, and so much more thrilling than real life.
David Walliams
#19. I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.
Anne Lamott
#20. The annoying thing about time is that it takes time...but no amount of it is enough when you are waiting to be sure. Time alone can tell you what will last.
Mil Millington
#21. I spend so much time alone that whenever I see my shadow I feel crowded.
Dov Davidoff
#22. I got married at 17, had three kids by the time I was 24, and have never had much time alone. I never had time to develop hobbies. Now, if I have nothing to do, I just find myself cleaning drawers incessantly.
Michael Learned
#23. Cody made a pot of coffee and heated water for Rosetta's tea. He needed the time alone to process what Wilkes had said. For the first time in his career, he wished he wasn't a cop. The evidence pointed to Catherine, and yet his heart told him that wasn't possible. He wanted to listen to his heart.
Linda S. Prather
#24. We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
Charles F. Stanley
#25. 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
#26. Spending some time alone is a therapy that most of us don't know how to practice. You need a little time alone every now and then to know what you are made of, to know and to do what you really like and to actually like yourself.
Mohamed Ghazi
#27. Cheer up and dry your damp eyes,
And tell me when it rains,
And I'll blend up that rainbow above you & shoot it through your veins ...
'Cause your heart has a lack of color,
And we should've known
That we'd grow up sooner or later,
'Cause we wasted all our free time alone. <3
Owl City
#28. Likewise, when you make time alone with Christ the priority, it affects and influences every single facet of your life - He gives you His energy, wisdom, and strength to fulfill His purposes and make you fruitful for His kingdom.
Charles F. Stanley
#29. I just needed time alone with my own thoughts
Got treasures in my mind but couldn't open up my own vault
Kanye West
#30. 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
#31. Time alone is pornography for people with families.
Victor LaValle
#32. I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.
Amit Bhatia
#33. You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.
Sharyn McCrumb
#34. Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#35. I get really excited when I plan some time alone with a good book
Steven Aitchison
#36. It comes, I suppose," I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, "of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don't always stay where you put them.
Naomi Novik
#37. Do not expect to grow in holiness if you spend little time alone with God and do not take His Word seriously.
Joel Beeke
#38. In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day.
Sophocles
#39. But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone.
Alice Sebold
#40. When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.
Summer Glau
#41. Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.
Rachel Cohn
#42. It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
Angel Olsen
#43. Extroverts get their energy from being around a lot of people, but introverts find large groups draining and require time alone to recharge
Sophia Amoruso
#44. 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
#45. What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
Philip Zimbardo
#46. 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
#47. When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.
Meg Cabot
#48. I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.
Karin Slaughter
#49. But it was too much. All of it was too much. I didn't know what I was feeling, but I knew I needed some time alone, some space to think about everything.
Jennifer Brown
#50. 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
#51. Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.
Ruth Ozeki
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. It's just me and James walking and walking except he's on my back and his eyes are looking past the people who are looking past us for the coyote of our soul and the wolverine of our heart and the crazy crazy man that touches every Indian who spends too much time alone.
Sherman Alexie
#55. Nothing will help us grow spiritually more than spending time alone with God every day, reading His Word and praying. Time alone with God is essential to our spiritual welfare.
Billy Graham
#57. I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren't allowed to make a sound.
Joss Whedon
#59. 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
#60. For time alone shews a man's honesty,
But in one day you may discern his guilt.
Sophocles
#61. What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being ...
Ellen Glasgow
#62. 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
#63. The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
Al Lopez
#64. A kind heart: $0.00
A Smile $0.00
Laughing with friends $0.00
Time alone $0.00
The benefit to those around you: Worth A Fortune
Steven Aitchison
#65. But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.
Pia Zadora
#66. I'm most often surrounded by people, so what I usually crave is time alone.
Laura Regan
#67. Every time a child organizes and completes a chore, spends some time alone without feeling lonely, loses herself in play for an hour, or refuses to go along with her peers in some activity she feels is wrong, she will be building meaning and a sense of worth for herself and harmony in her family.
Barbara Coloroso
#68. 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
#69. It is for this
reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in
time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for
space has no before, after, or now,
Arthur Schopenhauer
#70. When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
Orlando Bloom
#71. 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
#72. I used to sleep in the desert once every week, now it is every two weeks, most of the time alone. It's beautiful. What I enjoy is taking my food and cooking for myself.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#73. 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
#74. Sometimes I don't have enough energy to be social. I need time alone to recover from the last time I went out.
Tina J. Richardson
#75. SOFIA: We're not meant to be good and perfect. You know who lives longer? Married couples who enjoy under the sheets time alone. Enjoy the fun, but understand there must be an end goal.
Billy London
#76. But I didn't want to share everything yet ... I needed that time alone with it first, that delicious time where you replay every moment, where you make what has happened more real and also less - it becomes fact the more you repeat it, but it becomes story, too.
Deb Caletti
#77. Its purpose is self-renewal, and this is accomplished by spending time alone, immersed in the beautiful blanket of silence.
Robin S. Sharma
#78. 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
#79. Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads
Ronald T. Potter-Efron
#80. Spend some amount of time alone everyday.
Dalai Lama
#81. Your suspicion alone is more than enough justification for preventing time alone with your child. You
Gavin De Becker
#82. Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.
Sherry Turkle
#83. To strengthen our relationship with God, we need some meaningful time alone with Him
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#84. Time alone can help us to look inward, to fish for things that others can't see.
Fennel Hudson
#85. 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
#86. This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists ... by spending time alone practicing what they love.
Meg Cabot
#87. I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.
Anne Graham Lotz
#88. I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.
Lucinda Williams
#89. I love time with family and friends, but completely relish time on my own when I have no agenda to follow, no to-do's, just me and time alone.
Jacqueline Winspear
#90. Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Sophocles
#91. Love heals all wounds and not just time alone.
Jeff Buckley
#92. One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.
Joyce Meyer
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday.
Dan Pearce
#97. Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him.
Kay Arthur
#98. To open the possibility for self-honesty, you have to develop insight, which can be achieved through meditation, therapy, other sorts of sensitivity training, and simply spending periods of time alone to find out who you really are, what you really believe, and what you really, really want.
Stephen Russell
#99. Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.
Taylor Swift
#100. And gone the Godless destiny of death and desperation, and gone the madness of a life committed to uncare, and gone the tears and terror of the brutal days and endless nights where time alone would rule.
Ken Wilber
