- All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Jean de la Bruyere
- The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
Mason Cooley
- When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams
- Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
Martha Beck
- Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
- You can’t fake it when you’re alone with God, you know. – Being Alone Quotes
Jim Bakker
- The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
Kofi Annan
- It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me.
Jodie Foster
- I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but Ilove me.
Gene Simmons
- I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
Cyrano de Bergerac
- Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Charles Lindbergh
- I’m very happy alone.
Octavia E. Butler
- A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. – Being Alone Quotes
Boethius
- Solitude is un-American.
Erica Jong
- Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin Luther
- A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Arthur Schopenhauer
- I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Lord Byron
- I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Charles Bukowski
- We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don’t see things clearly as long as you’re still involved. – Being Alone Quotes
Dido Armstrong
- The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
Douglas Coupland
- Being alone is very difficult.
Yoko Ono
- I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.
Audrey Hepburn
- A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
Eileen Caddy
- We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya Angelou
- When I’m alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
- I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do. – Being Alone Quotes
Gloria Allred
Being Alone Quotes 101 – 200
- It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.
Marilyn Monroe
- Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone.
Arnold Rothstein
- The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron
- He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
John Fletcher
- I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
Audrey Hepburn
- I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t ultimately start judging you and your choices.
Sarah Silverman
- If you’re going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone. – Being Alone Quotes
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
Henry Rollins
- As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Hermann Hesse
- You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.
Phil McGraw
- Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
- In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
John Barrymore
- I’m happily single. – Being Alone Quotes
Paula Abdul
- I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
Robin Williams
- For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn
- Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling
- Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda
- We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Orson Welles
- I want to be alone.
Greta Garbo
- The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. – Being Alone Quotes
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.
Jenova Chen
- Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Robert Browning
- The doer alone learneth. – Being Alone Quotes
Friedrich Nietzsche