Best loneliness & being-alone Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

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Author:Aristotle

“No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”

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Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.”

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Author:Edward Gibbon

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”

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

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Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“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.”

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Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“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.”

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Author:Lorraine Hansberry

“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.”

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Author:Anne Hathaway

“I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”

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

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Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“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.”

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Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.”

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Author:Yousuf Karsh

“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“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.”

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Author:Bruce Barton

“Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.”

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Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”

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Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”

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Author:Christopher Morley

“Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.”

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Author:Martha Beck

“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”

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Author:Eugene O'Neill

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

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

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Author:Octavio Paz

“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.”

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Book:Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

“If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.”

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Author:Jules Renard

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”

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Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“To be adult is to be alone.”

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Author:Jean Rostand

“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”

Source: Marriage and Morals

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

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Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

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

“I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.”

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Author:Jason Schwartzman

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

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”

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Author:Laurence Sterne

“You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.”

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Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

“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.”

“Remember we're all in this alone.”

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Author:Lily Tomlin

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

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Author:Paul Valery

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“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.”

“Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.”

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Author:Joss Whedon

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”

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Author:Tennessee Williams

“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”

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Book:You Can't Go Home Again

Source: You Can't Go Home Again

“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.”

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Author:Tom Wolfe

“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”

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Author:Tom Wolfe

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

Source: Shampoo Planet

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