Quotes on Being Alone

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

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.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

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.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

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.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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.

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.