Quotes on Being Alone

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

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.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

All great and precious things are lonely.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.