Top Being Alone Quotes Collection
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Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.Collection: Being Alone
Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.Collection: Being Alone
Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.Collection: Being Alone
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.Collection: Being Alone
Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.Collection: Being Alone
I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.Collection: Being Alone
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.Collection: Being Alone
Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.Collection: Being Alone
For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.Collection: Being Alone
Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.Collection: Being Alone
Never fear being alone, because you never are.Collection: Being Alone
When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.Collection: Being Alone
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.Collection: Being Alone
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.Collection: Being Alone
To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.Collection: Being Alone
Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.Collection: Being Alone
Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.Collection: Being Alone
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.Collection: Being Alone
Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.Collection: Being Alone
The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.Collection: Being Alone
The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.Collection: Being Alone
I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.Collection: Being Alone
To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.Collection: Being Alone
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.Collection: Being Alone
I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.Collection: Being Alone
On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.Collection: Being Alone
I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'Collection: Being Alone
Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.Collection: Being Alone
Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.Collection: Being Alone
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strengthCollection: Being Alone
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.Collection: Being Alone