132 Quotes About Being-alone

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

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...

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.