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Quotes about Alone

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

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Anthony De Mello
Source: Awareness
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

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

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

Jacqueline Rich
Source: self
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Which of us not forever a stranger and alone?

Thomas Wolfe
 
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You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone, yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going.

Emily Carr
 
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                                 in this world you stand alone

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"Never alone am I, no matter how strong the feeling that may overcast my soul."

Laicie Laufman
 
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Even when utterly alone, the self is forever relational, and therefore always looking... at something. At times with the bird's eye view, it looks up to see cosmic origins, at another time it glances down to see the hardened cocoon of the body. And then it sees that there are other meshes, of gender, culture, times, ambitions, or just the greatest restriction of all, the compulsion to communicate, the greatest illusion of our lonely lives.

Sunanda Mongia
Source: Preface to the book Upon My Word (a collection of poetry)
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“I want to love you but you don’t want to love me. I can’t love someone if they don’t have the same feelings for me as I do for them”

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Its no good trying to get rid of your aloneness
You got to stick to it all life .
Onyl at times at times the gap will be filled in,
At times!
But you have to wait for those times

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Source: Reflection
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"Our reason has driven all away.
Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert."

Albert Camus : French philosopher & writer, Nobel prize winner
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
 
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Born alone to escape thoughts conceived within a dying star.

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Source: self
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"Solitude is learning that we are not alone when we are alone."

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It takes community to maintain a human.

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Earon Davis
Source: multiple online sources, including The Times of India
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When I was alone and had nothing
I asked 4 a friend 2 help me bear the
pain no one came except...God
When I needed a breath 2 rise
from my sleep no one could
help me except.... God
When all I saw was sadness
and I needed answers no one
heard me except.... God
So when I am asked whom I
give my unconditional love 2
look for no other name
except...God!

Tupac Shakur
 
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Everything looked and sounded unreal.  Nothing was what it is.  That's what I wanted -- to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

Eugene O'Neill
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Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
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The anguish of my life here - its rages - is hardly mentioned...There is violence there and anger never resolved.  I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word,a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many.  My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there.  I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines...It may be outwardly silent here but in the back of my mind is a clamor of human voices, too many needs, hopes and fear.  I hardly ever sit still without being haunted by the "undone"...

May Sarton
Source: Journal of a Solitude
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The ambience here is order and beauty.  That is what frightens me when I am first alone again.  I feel inadequate.  I have made an open place, a place for meditation.  What if I cannot find myself inside it?

May Sarton
Source: Journal of a Solitude
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Alone in my room, I could settle so easily into the solace of things and stare at them for hours.

Philip Graham
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From all kinds of flowers,
Seek teachings everywhere,
Like a deer that finds
A quiet place to graze,
Seek Seclusion to digest
All you have gathered. . .

Mamkhai Norbu Rinpoche
Source: Dzogchen Tantra from his book The Crystal and the Way of Light
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. 

Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
Source: www.quotegarden.com
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My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God

David Brainerd
Source: The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
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"We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly. And we felt torn, torn for some word we could not find."

Ayn Rand : Russian born American writer & philosopher who advocated capitalism, individualism, & "objectivism"
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Source: Anthem
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A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether.
And alone and without its nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.

Kahlil Gibran : Lebanese mystical poet, philosopher & painter
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Source: The Prophet: 26 poetic essays, Page: 4-5
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