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Being Alone Quotes (page 11)

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.''I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand. Evelyn Waugh
I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hourto consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to myworld. Virginia Woolf
If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone. Yoshida Kenko
I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal. Anne Lamott
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of.-Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen Cornelia Funke
Daphne du Maurier quote: "But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things,..."
But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands. Daphne du Maurier
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Francis Picabia quote: "The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be..."
The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone. Francis Picabia
Ernest Hemingway quote: "No one should be alone in their old age, he thought."
No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. Ernest Hemingway
It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them. Henry David Thoreau
Fernando Pessoa quote: "To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a..."
To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. Fernando Pessoa
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Carl Jung
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass. David Herbert Lawrence
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there. Elizabeth Bowen

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