Cecelia Ahern Quotes

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.

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

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger.

True individuality can be lonely.

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

Sometimes I think you'll be fine by yourself Cause a dream is a wish you make all alone; It's easy to feel like you don't need help, But it's harder to walk on your own.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

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

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.