Top 30 Being Alone Quotes


It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.

Michael Josephson

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

Wendy Wasserstein


If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

Leonardo da Vinci

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Nikola Tesla

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

Amelia Barr

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Tom Wolfe

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

Roger Rosenblatt

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Douglas Coupland


The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

Lois Lowry

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

Martha Beck

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Haruki Murakami

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Margaret Cho

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

Gertrude Stein

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

Honoré de Balzac

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Martin Luther


All great and precious things are lonely.

John Steinbeck

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa


When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

Audrey Hepburn

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

May Sarton


Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Henry Rollins


There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron


It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Marilyn Monroe

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller


Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller


The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Edward Gibbon


You only grow when you are alone.

Paul Newman

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Anton Chekhov

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  1. Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

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