Quotes on Being Alone

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

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.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

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.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

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.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.