132 Quotes About Being-alone

On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

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 secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside to meet people. That will only keep you from being alone. The secret is going inside yourself, to realize your true kinship with God and with all the human beings that he created.

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.