Quotes about Alone

What good is life if you have no one to spend it with?

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life; they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see Life as a whole: by which, and by which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

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

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

misery does't love company, it fears being alone.

                                 in this world you stand alone