The best Quotes and Sayings about Solitude & Being Alone

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

Being alone and being lonely are two entirely different things. You may be surrounded by others, but do you truly consider any of those people your friend?

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry!

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone

Being alone really makes you realize all you got is yourself.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

There is nothing more lonely or terrifying than feeling unheard.

I can be surrounded by a sea of people and still feel all alone... then I think of you.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together. They like being solitary together.

I actually enjoyed being alone, solitude allowed me to think about important things.

I like being alone.
I have control over my own space.
Therefore, in order to win me over, your presence has to be better than my solitude.
You're not competing with another person, you are competing with my comfort zone.

Have you ever been alone in a crowded room?

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

You mean well, but leave me be
Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free

If we are all alone, then that's also somthing we have together.

I love being on my own. No rules, no responsibilities... it's as good as it sounds.

I really think everyone should be important enough to just one other person on this freaking planet to be fought for. Even me. And nobody’s fighting for me. So I’m done.

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

'Jesus?', he whispered as his voice choked.
'I feel so lost.' A hand reached out and squeezed his, and didn't let go.
'I know Mack. But it's not true. I am with you and I'm not lost. I'm sorry it feels that way, but hear me clearly. You are not lost.'

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Human beings are designed for many things, but loneliness isn't one of them.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Nobody likes to be alone, especially after a breakup. But that's when we discover who we really are and what we really want.

Forty years ago, the Beatles asked the world a simple question: they wanted to know where all the lonely people came from. My latest theory is that a great many of the lonely people come from hospitals. More precisely, the surgical wing of hospitals. As surgeons, we ignore our own needs so we can meet our patients' needs. We ignore our friends and families so we can save other people's friends and families. Which means that, at the end of the day, all we really have is ourselves. And nothing in this world can make you feel more alone than that.

The loneliness does not come from the war. The war did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the war.

We enter the world alone and we leave it alone. And everything that happens in between, we owe it to our self to find a little company. We need help. We need support. Otherwise we're in it by our self. Strangers, cut off from each other and we forget just how connect we all are. So instead we choose love. We choose life and for a moment we feel just a little bit less alone.

Because nothing sucks more than feeling all alone, no matter how many people are around.