Quotes on Being Alone

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

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

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.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

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

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets_x000D_ _x000D_ loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today_x000D_ _x000D_ the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the_x000D_ _x000D_ techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.

Be good and you will be lonely.

Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.