Quotes and Sayings About Being Alone

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
-- Abigail Van Buren

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There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
-- Abraham ibn Ezra

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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-- Alain de Botton

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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
-- Albert Einstein

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Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
-- Albert Einstein

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
-- Aldous Huxley

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When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
-- Alfred Polgar

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

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Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...
-- Amelia Barr

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The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside to meet people. That will only keep you from being alone. The secret is going inside yourself, to realize your true kinship with God and with all the human beings that he created.
-- Amy Grant

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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
-- Anais Nin

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Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.
-- Anneli Rufus

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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

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I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
-- Audrey Hepburn

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Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
-- Barbara De Angelis

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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.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

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I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing...
-- Beverly Pepper

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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
-- Blaise Pascal

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It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
-- Bruce Barton

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My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.
-- C. E. M. Joad

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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.
-- Carl Jung

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Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
-- Carl Jung

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A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
-- Chanakya

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Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
-- Conrad Aiken

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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

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

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Spend some time alone every day.
-- Dalai Lama

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you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self
-- David Archuleta

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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?
-- David Foster Wallace

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The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-- Deb Caletti

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