When You Are Alone Quotes

#1. When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwork. And you know you are never alone.

Anusha Atukorala

#2. When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

John Cage

#3. When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

Cesare Pavese

#5. When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you ... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see ... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.

Guy Finley

#6. When you travel alone, no one knows who you are, there's no predetermined idea about how you should act, you are free, and you can be your true self. Every morning you are liberated to create your identity as you truly want it to be.

Sean Michael Hayes

#7. When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together.

Isabel Gillies

#8. It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.

Christian Slater

#9. I have been being careful since the first minute I saw you. I am the Queen of Carefulness. I shall go on being careful for ever, if you like - so long as I might be a bit reckless, sometimes, when we are quite alone

Sarah Waters

#10. Lost is lost; it's when you want someone to hold you but there is no one who can. Lost is alone, even when people are all around you.

Kristin Hannah

#11. Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.

Walker Evans

#12. You have spent your whole life believing such untrue things. Don't you know how alone you are, David? We are most alone when we are with the myths.

Nadeem Aslam

#13. Who are you when you're alone? When no one is watching? What's left then?

Rae Mariz

#14. I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

Khaled Hosseini

#15. There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

Robert Breault

#16. When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

Claudia Rankine

#17. Phil. Look what you are doing! When you say, I - I - I want to exist you alone do not say this, but everything, absolutely everything, that has only a vestige of consciousness. Consequently this desire of yours is just that which is not individual but which is common to all without distinction.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#18. Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Charles Bukowski

#19. The true defining situation for a person is what they do when they are alone and don't have to do anything else. What do they do? Do they do frivolous things? That's when you define what you are.

Jeff Benedict

#20. When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I'm my own company.

Audrey Hepburn

#21. Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Tyler Perry

#22. For me, romance is only 'true' when there are two sides to it. I think to have true romance you have to have the moments where you feel alone and you're crying and you feel like your heart's about to break ... as well as the moments where you're floating through this orgasmic dream state.

Charli XCX

#23. I usually only draw myself in down periods ... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

David Hockney

#24. I've been watching you and Roar. Wanting it to be me training with you." His shoulders came up. "I don't want to do it now."
"Why?" Aria's voice was high and thin.
He smiled, a flash of shyness, before he leaned close. "There are other things I'd rather do when I'm alone with you.

Veronica Rossi

#25. I think only when you are truly alone can you see you never were.

Kelly Moran

#26. It isn't easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
-Hephaestus

Rick Riordan

#27. life is sad.......when you are living it alone.

Morgan Matson

#28. You are never alone, not when you have friends. Learn from my stories and, through thick and thin, remember, if you have friends you are never alone. Rock

Kristen Ashley

#29. Here's another thing: There are certain wounds that never heal, certain hurts that never leave you alone, like a broken bone that heals wrong and always twinges when it's about to rain.

Robert Goolrick

#30. If one of the most interesting places to be is your inner world, you will never be bored when you are alone.

Sahara Sanders

#31. When you fell like your not loved remeber that I am here for you and I do care for you;You just have to remeber that you are not alone<3

Nalizha

#32. Alone we are fine; but when we're two, we are eternal. The moons have aligned our separate lives; here become one and you would be the last thing I saw coming.

Chrissy Anderson

#33. Be truly romantic even when you are alone.

Debasish Mridha

#34. You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you. So easy to be all those things, when all the power is on your side.

Ann Leckie

#35. I think that when you follow Christ, one of the things that happens when you start listening to His voice is that you really are alone.

Mike Yaconelli

#36. Connected to the collective heart, you can be certain in every cell of your being that you are never alone, and you will experience the grace, guidance and ease that comes when you are one with all there is.

Debbie Ford

#37. Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.

Epictetus

#38. There are so many ways to be alone here, even when you're surrounded by this many people.

Jennifer E. Smith

#39. Here's a simple way you can engage your intuition. When you are about to say something and you're not sure if you want to say it, ask yourself, "What is my motivation?" When you check your motivation you engage non-physical guidance and you will not be alone in you assessment.

Gary Zukav

#40. I promised to never leave you in this world alone, no matter how happy you are without me i shall keep my promise ever and will be there for you when all leave you. That's my love for you.

Debolina

#41. I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?

Kate DiCamillo

#42. Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when
you are alone?

Anthony De Mello

#43. It is simply amazing, at that age, when you're thirteen or fourteen, how you can take being loved for granted, how (even when you are wanted) you can feel utterly alone.

John Irving

#44. The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

Colson Whitehead

#45. Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

Queen Latifah

#46. In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

#47. Abstraction, n.
Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.

David Levithan

#48. It's my place when I'm here alone. It's ours when you are here with me." ~Nolan

Sarah Brocious

#49. Be good and kind to yourself in silence when you are all alone, that is all that matters.

Debasish Mridha

#50. YOU HAVE the right to my help. I am your creator. Your problems are my problems. Ask me for help. I give it to you gladly. I am saddened when you try to live alone. My desire for you is union and fulfillment. I am your answered prayer. I am always what you seek.

Julia Cameron

#51. 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

#52. Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing to each of them a letter on behalf of your client.

David Ogilvy

#53. I realize we lose our innocence in many ways, the most painful being when we realize those who are supposed to love us and care for us more than anything, really care for themselves and their own pleasures more. It's painful because it makes you realize how alone you really are.

V.C. Andrews

#54. It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

Gloria Allred

#55. You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

Christy Hall

#56. Being alone is easier than having a family. When you have a family, you are responsible to each other. It's easier to navigate the world without that burden.

Zachary Jernigan

#57. Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

Hannah Arendt

#58. There is the freedom you have when you are alone and there is the freedom that you have next to someone else. Blessed are those in which those two freedoms coincide.

Luigina Sgarro

#59. You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#60. Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you're alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.

Ben Harper

#61. When the wind blows in your face,
when you feel you are losing your head,
when the going gets tough,
and when all else fails,
look inside you,
you are not alone.

Malak El Halabi

#62. You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.

Thomas Perry

#63. When you are in need, you are all alone indeed!

Vinita Kinra

#64. Never try to bear a burden of sorrow all alone when there are those who love you near at hand to share the pain!

Eva Roe Gaggin

#65. Brother, when you've been here as long as I have, you'll come to discover there are only one or two essential things worth living for. Unique to you and you alone. My honor is one of them for me. I keep my honor by keeping the relic out of their hands.

Brodi Ashton

#66. Feeling alone among the many is normal.

Feeling many when you are alone, calls for a professional help. A qualified shrink can always shrink your ego down to being again alone.

Boris Zubry

#67. When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.

Rajneesh

#68. You are never alone when lost in a good book.

C.J. Lyons

#69. The house in the story is based on my friend Tori's house in Kinsale, Ireland, which is obviously not actually haunted, and the sound of people upstairs moving wardrobes around when you are downstairs there and alone is probably just something that old houses do when they think they are unobserved.

Neil Gaiman

#70. hold company with yourself so sacred
that even when you are alone,
you are whole.

AVA.

#71. If you are happy for a day, a thousand people notice it, but when you are sad for years, everyone just walks away.

M.F. Moonzajer

#72. Sometimes i feel like it's going to be collapse & I'm going to be bury under a large amount of problems. You know these sometimes are when I'm all alone, without hope

Russ

#73. When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

Magic Johnson

#74. Alone,alone! It is a fact, you hear more acutely and you see and think most acutely,when you are alone.
Alone, alone! But there is happiness in alone, if you believe you have chosen it.

Joyce Carol Oates

#75. It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Paul Theroux

#76. Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.

Isocrates

#77. Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.

John Denver

#78. There are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late

Charles Bukowski

#79. You are not alone if you are lonely,
When you feel afraid, you're not the only.

Matt Maher

#80. You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#81. People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

Kelly Clarkson

#82. Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.

F. Sionil Jose

#83. Then I looked out onto the horizon myself and realized that loss is the same wherever you go: overwhelming, inexorable, deafening. How resilient human beings are that we can learn slowly to carry on when we are left all alone, left to fill the void as best we can. Or disappear into it.

Jennifer Ryan

#84. I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

Twyla Tharp

#85. You realize you are not alone when you write, and you start to write for the person who will read your words. I think that's a bad thing, but I'm not sure, because I do think of being an author someday, and authors have to commune with their readers.

Laura Amy Schlitz

#86. I took my first sip. When I moaned, he arched an amused brow. "Would you two like to be alone?"
I tucked my latte protectively close. "Yes. Could you give us fifteen, twenty minutes tops? I have a feeling things are about to get real obscene up in this house.

Linda Kage

#87. Sometimes, when you are busy and children ask funny questions, you don't think so much. You just answer quickly so they will leave you alone. If you don't answer, they will just keep asking or they will go and do something very bad.

Jinat Rehana Begum

#88. Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?

Oscar Wilde

#89. But she wasn't around, and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

Mitch Albom

#90. Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.

Zachary Cole Smith

#91. When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

Coretta Scott King

#92. When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.

Frederick Lenz

#93. Don't be someone who has everything but can't afford the truth. Think about who you are when you are alone and start being that person full time.

Bryant McGill

#94. I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they're alone and it's not going to get better. My advice is that there is a support system out there, there are a lot of people who have been through what you're going through and are going through it now.

Brittany Snow

#95. Pretend you are foolish to the foolish, and be yourself when you are alone or with others like you, because if you take the foolish seriously as your friend, you might be a fool yourself.

A Gentlemen

#96. Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.

Helen Humphreys

#97. When you are asleep you can't tell whether or not you are alone, or diminished, or whatever. I have nothing, I thought. But that's not true. I have her absence. You can see it clearly. Look for the edges of my existence that surround it.

Meg Howrey

#98. When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

Keanu Reeves

#99. You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. I just need that dynamic of other people around me to get my work done.

Chuck Palahniuk

#100. People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

Andy Warhol