Aloneness Quotes

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

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

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache. It is not a garment I cast off this day, bit a skin that I tear with my own hands... Yet I cannot tarry longer.

I think a lot when I'm on my own - and much of it is about cricket.

I am not a people person. It's not that I am shy, but I am more comfortable in an atmosphere of one-on-one. I hate crowds and parties.

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

There is nothing in Indispensable that says, Alone.

What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?