Being Alone Quotes

“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

“Just like you mistook lust for love, you have mistaken with being alone for loneliness. So I'm fine. Thanks for asking.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

“What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot escape yourself, for God has singled you out.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself.”
― Robert Tew

“I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.”
― Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers

“Being alone comes from separating our Self from others. It’s not about taking alone time in order to recharge. It’s the difference between “I’m alone” vs “I need some time alone”.

Introverts can take alone time in a crowded bookstore full of strangers. Being alone comes from a state of emotional separation. It’s that wall we place between us and the external. We can do this while having the physical presence of another person or having people in our lives. People who have many friends can still feel alone.

People who feel the most alone consistently hold attitudes and take actions that separate themselves, exclude themselves and hold themselves incomparable to others.”
― Corin

“To the loner, loneliness is a treasure that cannot be traded, even for the nicest of companies.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Social distancing is staying away from people not from your purpose.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“I’d thought he was stars and then I’d thought he was a fox. I had thought I’d been alone, but I hadn’t.”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“Be alone. That’s when and where you will refresh. Be a stranger someplace for some odd amount of time. Introduce you to you. Try on new thoughts like sneakers. Walk up and back. How’s the toe feel?

Recharge and welcome the new year like you’d welcome a happy puppy returning a stick. Tail wagging, tongue out. Then mix in with those who unbecame to become their best selves, too.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.”
― Oliver

“And the complete truth of this statement shocks me, because I am mostly on my own. I am so permanently alone that I can feel it in my bones, in my eyeballs, in the roots of my hair. I feel loneliness like a physical presence, as if someone heavy is sitting on my chest. I feel it when I wake up and I feel it when I walk down the street. I feel it when I eat and when I dance; I feel it when I'm with people, and I feel it when I'm not. I feel loneliness inside me, all of the time, but I also like to be alone and I don't really like other humans much either, so where the hell does that leave me?”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“All day the stars watch from long ago
my mother said I am going now
when you are alone you will be all right
whether or not you know you will know
look at the old house in the dawn rain
all the flowers are forms of water
the sun reminds them through a white cloud
touches the patchwork spread on the hill
the washed colors of the afterlife
that lived there long before you were born
see how they wake without a question
even though the whole world is burning”
― W S Merwin, The Shadow of Sirius

“Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self-expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I always had to pretend back then," he said. "Trying to act the way I was supposed to, to understand what people wanted from me. Alone is not synonymous with lonely. Out in the world, everyone tells you to just be yourself but then punishes you if you are. And yet they are right. Alone I can be myself.”
― Maria Romasco Moore, I Am the Ghost in Your House

“BEING YOURSELF IS BETTER THAN BEING ALONE”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Go towards that heart
You feel home.
Either,
Being homeless is better.”
― Showkot Shawon

“Being alone,” she started, “isn’t exactly something I’m good at doing. Every time I try to be alone—even when I know that someone I know isn’t too far away—I start... panicking, I guess.” Caroline stopped to take a breath, feeling like what she was saying was the most draining conversation she had ever had in her life. “So, when I come out here, I can convince myself that I’m fine. I can almost get it to where I’ll believe that I can function like a normal human being because if I can go to another state and be alone, I should be able to do anything.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea.
Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?”
― Haruki Marukami

“To be alone does not mean you have to cut yourself off from society, go to a mountain, and live in a cave. To live alone means you are always yourself—you do not lose yourself. You can sit in the marketplace, and yet you can be alone.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other

“. . . solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is the state of being alone without being lonely, of being happily self-sufficient.”
― Keli Maire, Finding Peace in Nature: A Practical Guide: How to Unlock the Healing Power of the Great Outdoors

“And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans.”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

“Maybe independence is just the flag we wave to distract from the pain of being alone.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“We should learn early to enjoy being in solitude, because even in death, we are in solitude.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Den stora världen är farlig, där är det ingen som känner till en och vet vad man tycker om och vad man är rädd för.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

“...there were few feelings worse than loneliness. Or maybe there actually weren't any, and loneliness was the worst, because it was pervasive, hard to shake, even when you weren't alone, and it worked overtime to convince you that contentment and joy were possible.

But that was a lie.

When you truly spent most of your time alone? When you had to? And not because you wanted to? There was no joy to be found.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“Writers spend a lot of time being alone. If we're lucky, we like being alone, and if we're even luckier, we have people who love us through it all.”
― Nghi Vo

“You’re never alone if you can count on yourself.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“With the best day comes the loneliest night.”
― Murshidul Alam Bhuiyan