“A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” ~Mandy Hale
"And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us." ~Khalil Gibran
“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.” ~Albert Einstein
"Because your soul must be lonely. That silence you heard, when you tried to pray - that’s the sound of God listening." ~Emma Donoghue
"Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge. If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.
And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void." ~Paulo Coelho, "Manuscript found in Accra"
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is within you.” ~Rumi
"Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike." ~Maya Angelou
"For every moment you feel alone, there is an Angel whose presence means you never have to feel alone again." ~Anna Taylor
”For the total development of the human being, solitude as a means of cultivating sensitivity becomes a necessity." ~Anon
"Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness." ~Henry Alonzo Myers
“Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. //Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace” ~Dean Koontz, The Good Guy
"Humans can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings." ~Paulo Coelho
“I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.” ~Khalil Gibran
"I AM NEVER ALONE. My SOUL is my most treasured friend and goes with me everywhere I go. To make friends with your Soul is to see with completely new eyes. A whole new world begins to open up and you recognise that you are connected to everything and there is no sense of loneliness, just a deep abiding peace with all that is. Life becomes magical." ~Eileen Dielesen, the WOMAN WITH A DREAM
"I appreciate ALONENESS where I soak my soul in a bathtub of silence." ~Leah C. Dancel, 15 February 2015
“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.” ~Jorge Luis Borges
"I do not want your admiration now, because I do not want your insults in the future. I bear with my loneliness now, in order to avoid greater loneliness in the years ahead. You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves." ~Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro
"I enjoy being alone, my soul is at peace in silence." ~from Be Human, Be Kind
"I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm. Two hands protecting. Two hands nourishing. Two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger!" ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude." ~Henry David Thoreau
"If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely." ~Carl Jung
"...if I’m alone in bed, I will go over to window, look up at the sky and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company...." ~Anon
“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre
"In solitude there is healing. Speak to your soul. Listen to your heart. Sometimes in the absence of noise we find the answers." ~Dodinsky
"In solitude, they will discover the love that might otherwise arrive unnoticed. In solitude, they will understand and respect the love that left them. In solitude, they will be able to decide whether it is worth asking that lost love to come back or if they should simply let it go and set off along a new path. In solitude, they will learn that saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue." ~Paulo Coelho
"It is beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society." ~Anon
"It's during those lone moments that we realise what or who we really are." ~Lito Recio, FB
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2006
"It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love others. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. It is pure affection, and filled with reverence for the solitude of others. Solitude and silence teach me to love others for what they are, not for what they say." ~Thomas Merton
"It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they’ve got to come. You can’t force them." ~D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.” ~David Crosby on Loneliness
"It would do the world good if every person in it would compel themselves occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world's progress has come out of such loneliness." ~Bruce Barton
"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape." ~Bell Hooks
"Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone." ~Ferdinand Marcos
"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." ~Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper.
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.” ~Carl Jung
"Loneliness is a part of the human experience." ~Panache Desai
"Loneliness is not a private matter." ~Emily White
"Loneliness is not synonymous with aloneness though it may seem to have the appearance of such. One can be lonely even when in a crowd. I'd rather much be alone than be with a group but lonely." ~Georix Alertse
"Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact." ~Martha Beck
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.” ~Janet Fitch
"Loneliness, when accepted, is a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life. Don't panic." ~Paulo Coelho
"Make time to relax, be still, and enjoy your solitude, indulging in much-needed self-care." ~from Believe the best is yet to come
"Never let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone you know you don't belong with." ~Lessons Learned in Life
"No one wants to suffer. No one wants to be lonely. No one wants to live in fear. No one wants to lose everything. No one wants their heart ripped to shreds. No one want to be sick. And, no one wants to die. But these things happen in life. So the least we can do is be there for others, as we would like others to be there for us." ~Bryant McGill
"Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate." ~Bryant McGill
"Once you have learned to be comfortable alone, you will walk the way of DEEP PEACE. To be your own best friend is the greatest gift. It offers you complete peace because you no longer need to seek for anything. You have found it all right where you stand. This is bliss!" ~Eileen Dielesen, the "Woman with a Dream"
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for." ~Dag Hammarskjold
"Solitude is a gift and a privilege. It silences the noise of all that isn’t you, so you can finally get to know and love the person living in your chest. It teaches you the power of longing, self-trust, creative resurrection and surrender. In solitude you learn how to become your dancing partner in the dark and only author of your life. Don’t fill it up with fear, doubt or failed expectations. Stay there with your naked self and breathe. Learn to be one with your own soul." ~Anon
“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.” ~Gregory David Roberts
"Sometimes being alone is not really sad. It's peaceful." ~T. Josh
"Sometimes, you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself." ~Lessons Learned In Life
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.." ~Goethe
"The choice of solitude is not so much a rejection of community as a recognition that certain experiences and truths are so alien to ordinary consciousness that the individual must withdraw in order to experience them." ~Carol P. Christ
"The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant." ~Rabindranath Tagore
"The hardest walk you can make is alone. But it's the walk that will make you stronger." ~Anon fron sungazing
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." ~Friedrich Nietzsche
"The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do." ~Mary
"The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. That is why many of the earthly miracles have had their genesis in humble surroundings." ~Nikola Tesla
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." ~Albert Einstein
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” ~ Aldous Huxley
(Solitary Tree, Lincoln's Rock Sunset)
"The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness, it's intimacy." ~Richard Bach
“The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.” ~from "The Awakening" By Kate Chopin
"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself." ~Mark Twain
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” ~Lois Lowry, The Giver. (from Haizer Adrias Libcat:
"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect." ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "PEACE OF MIND" by Tim Cox Fine Art
"There's a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness." ~
“There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.” ~Abraham Ibn Esra
"To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions." ~Deepak Chopra
"Truth is a lonely warrior." ~Hidden Truth PH
"Until you get comfortable with being alone, you'll never know if you're choosing someone out of love or loneliness." ~Mandy Hale
"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." ~Albert Schweitzer
"We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude." ~Helen Hayes
"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be." ~Ellen Burstyn
"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured." ~Kurt Vonnegut
"When two people read books in each other’s company it is considered companionable silence, or mutual intellectual interest, or a romantic version of solitude from which one is sure they will surface shortly to discuss what they have read and marvel at each other’s insights." ~Emma Brockes
"When you become friends with solitude, you will never feel alone again." ~Steven Aitchison
"When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and cannot find your way out of the darkness, remember that this is where caterpillars go to grow their wings." ~Anon
"When you're feeling lonely, visit an elderly neighbour who is living alone. When you're scared, help someone else be brave. When you're stuck, encourage a friend to take a small step. When you're depressed, make someone smile. When you're defeated, cheer someone else on. When your heart is broken, help someone mend theirs. And when things are going well and are unfolding the way you want, be grateful and bring someone else along with you." ~Paul Boynton, Begin With Yes
“When you practice solitude, you will notice something quite wonderful: You are never really alone. In you and through you, the Source energy is always flowing. You are always connected to everything and everyone with this invisible energy. The comfort and guidance you seek are already within, and you can feel them in solitude.” ~Akashic Records from my book, Why We Are Born
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” ~Barbara de Angelis
"Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable centre of a whole web of human relationships." ~Anne Morrow Lindberg
"You embrace solitude as you realize how comforting it can be, by yourself, in your own private space." ~Susan Shumsky
OTHERS
"A wise man can always be found alone. A weak man can always be found in a crowd." ~Bruce Lee
"Being alone has the power that very few people can handle." ~Steven Aitchison
"Do not give up. Even when others do not understand. Even when you feel alone with your dreams. Even when the vision gets a little blurred... Your steps are ordered, and you are destined for greatness. You are stronger than your mind can conceive, everything you need lies within." ~LaKesha Womack
"Don't let getting lonely make you reconnect with toxic people. You shouldn't drink poison just because you're thirsty." ~Powerful Mind
"He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone." ~Antonio Porchia from Gary P Hayes Photography
"I'm the type of person who enjoys being alone. I like to walk home alone with my music. I like to stay home alone Friday nights. I just like quiet and time to myself. But I don't like being alone for a long time. I don't like being alone long enough for the bad thoughts to take over. I guess what I'm saying is that I like being alone, but I hate being lonely." -KG
"I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give." ~Charlotte Brontë ( Jane Eyre )
"I can’t emphasize enough the importance of learning to be alone by going on solo adventures to shape and promote your sense of independence. You don’t always have to surround yourself with people. Become your own best friend. Take the time and buy yourself a cup of coffee, tea or drink relax and enjoy it. Learn to love every bit of your company! There is nothing more freeing and empowering." ~LLL
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." ~Oscar Wilde
"If you're feeling alone tonight, look up. The same moon shines down on all of us." ~Fiona, The Healing Room
"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up." ~Pearl Buck
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2006
“It is often in our loneliest times that God speaks the loudest.” ~Mandy Hale
"It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone." ~Anon
"Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone." ~Paul Tillich
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” ~Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum LP
"Moments of solitude with Mother Nature, is sunshine to a soul." ~A.D. Williams
"My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored." ~C.E.M. Joad
"People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.” ~Kim Culbertson
"Most people do not understand the wisdom of a free person. Such free spirits often become lonely in life. But the world needs them!" ~Wikr
"...if I’m alone in bed, I will go over to window, look up at the sky and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company...." ~Anon
“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre
"In solitude there is healing. Speak to your soul. Listen to your heart. Sometimes in the absence of noise we find the answers." ~Dodinsky
"In solitude, they will discover the love that might otherwise arrive unnoticed. In solitude, they will understand and respect the love that left them. In solitude, they will be able to decide whether it is worth asking that lost love to come back or if they should simply let it go and set off along a new path. In solitude, they will learn that saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue." ~Paulo Coelho
"It is beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society." ~Anon
"It's during those lone moments that we realise what or who we really are." ~Lito Recio, FB
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2006
"It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love others. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. It is pure affection, and filled with reverence for the solitude of others. Solitude and silence teach me to love others for what they are, not for what they say." ~Thomas Merton
"It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they’ve got to come. You can’t force them." ~D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.” ~David Crosby on Loneliness
"It would do the world good if every person in it would compel themselves occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world's progress has come out of such loneliness." ~Bruce Barton
"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape." ~Bell Hooks
"Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone." ~Ferdinand Marcos
"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." ~Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper.
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.” ~Carl Jung
"Loneliness is a part of the human experience." ~Panache Desai
"Loneliness is not a private matter." ~Emily White
"Loneliness is not synonymous with aloneness though it may seem to have the appearance of such. One can be lonely even when in a crowd. I'd rather much be alone than be with a group but lonely." ~Georix Alertse
"Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact." ~Martha Beck
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.” ~Janet Fitch
"Loneliness is the most terrible poverty." ~Mother Teresa
"Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people." ~Joan Collins
"Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people." ~Joan Collins
"Loneliness, when accepted, is a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life. Don't panic." ~Paulo Coelho
"Make time to relax, be still, and enjoy your solitude, indulging in much-needed self-care." ~from Believe the best is yet to come
"Never let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone you know you don't belong with." ~Lessons Learned in Life
"No one wants to suffer. No one wants to be lonely. No one wants to live in fear. No one wants to lose everything. No one wants their heart ripped to shreds. No one want to be sick. And, no one wants to die. But these things happen in life. So the least we can do is be there for others, as we would like others to be there for us." ~Bryant McGill
"Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate." ~Bryant McGill
"Once you have learned to be comfortable alone, you will walk the way of DEEP PEACE. To be your own best friend is the greatest gift. It offers you complete peace because you no longer need to seek for anything. You have found it all right where you stand. This is bliss!" ~Eileen Dielesen, the "Woman with a Dream"
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for." ~Dag Hammarskjold
"Solitude is a gift and a privilege. It silences the noise of all that isn’t you, so you can finally get to know and love the person living in your chest. It teaches you the power of longing, self-trust, creative resurrection and surrender. In solitude you learn how to become your dancing partner in the dark and only author of your life. Don’t fill it up with fear, doubt or failed expectations. Stay there with your naked self and breathe. Learn to be one with your own soul." ~Anon
“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.” ~Gregory David Roberts
"Sometimes being alone is not really sad. It's peaceful." ~T. Josh
"Sometimes, you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself." ~Lessons Learned In Life
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.." ~Goethe
"The choice of solitude is not so much a rejection of community as a recognition that certain experiences and truths are so alien to ordinary consciousness that the individual must withdraw in order to experience them." ~Carol P. Christ
"The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant." ~Rabindranath Tagore
"The hardest walk you can make is alone. But it's the walk that will make you stronger." ~Anon fron sungazing
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." ~Friedrich Nietzsche
"The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do." ~Mary
"The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. That is why many of the earthly miracles have had their genesis in humble surroundings." ~Nikola Tesla
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." ~Albert Einstein
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” ~ Aldous Huxley
(Solitary Tree, Lincoln's Rock Sunset)
"The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness, it's intimacy." ~Richard Bach
“The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.” ~from "The Awakening" By Kate Chopin
"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself." ~Mark Twain
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” ~Lois Lowry, The Giver. (from Haizer Adrias Libcat:
“There are two kinds of loneliness,
one you feel when you're all alone,
and the other you feel in a crowded room,
when you realize you're the only person who knows what it's like to be you.” ~Atticus Poetry
"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect." ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "PEACE OF MIND" by Tim Cox Fine Art
"There's a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness." ~
“There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.” ~Abraham Ibn Esra
"To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions." ~Deepak Chopra
"Truth is a lonely warrior." ~Hidden Truth PH
"Until you get comfortable with being alone, you'll never know if you're choosing someone out of love or loneliness." ~Mandy Hale
"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." ~Albert Schweitzer
"We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude." ~Helen Hayes
"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be." ~Ellen Burstyn
"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured." ~Kurt Vonnegut
"When two people read books in each other’s company it is considered companionable silence, or mutual intellectual interest, or a romantic version of solitude from which one is sure they will surface shortly to discuss what they have read and marvel at each other’s insights." ~Emma Brockes
"When you become friends with solitude, you will never feel alone again." ~Steven Aitchison
"When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and cannot find your way out of the darkness, remember that this is where caterpillars go to grow their wings." ~Anon
"When you're feeling lonely, visit an elderly neighbour who is living alone. When you're scared, help someone else be brave. When you're stuck, encourage a friend to take a small step. When you're depressed, make someone smile. When you're defeated, cheer someone else on. When your heart is broken, help someone mend theirs. And when things are going well and are unfolding the way you want, be grateful and bring someone else along with you." ~Paul Boynton, Begin With Yes
“When you practice solitude, you will notice something quite wonderful: You are never really alone. In you and through you, the Source energy is always flowing. You are always connected to everything and everyone with this invisible energy. The comfort and guidance you seek are already within, and you can feel them in solitude.” ~Akashic Records from my book, Why We Are Born
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” ~Barbara de Angelis
"Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable centre of a whole web of human relationships." ~Anne Morrow Lindberg
"You embrace solitude as you realize how comforting it can be, by yourself, in your own private space." ~Susan Shumsky
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OTHERS
"A wise man can always be found alone. A weak man can always be found in a crowd." ~Bruce Lee
"Being alone has the power that very few people can handle." ~Steven Aitchison
"Do not give up. Even when others do not understand. Even when you feel alone with your dreams. Even when the vision gets a little blurred... Your steps are ordered, and you are destined for greatness. You are stronger than your mind can conceive, everything you need lies within." ~LaKesha Womack
"Don't let getting lonely make you reconnect with toxic people. You shouldn't drink poison just because you're thirsty." ~Powerful Mind
"He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone." ~Antonio Porchia from Gary P Hayes Photography
"I'm the type of person who enjoys being alone. I like to walk home alone with my music. I like to stay home alone Friday nights. I just like quiet and time to myself. But I don't like being alone for a long time. I don't like being alone long enough for the bad thoughts to take over. I guess what I'm saying is that I like being alone, but I hate being lonely." -KG
"I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give." ~Charlotte Brontë ( Jane Eyre )
"I can’t emphasize enough the importance of learning to be alone by going on solo adventures to shape and promote your sense of independence. You don’t always have to surround yourself with people. Become your own best friend. Take the time and buy yourself a cup of coffee, tea or drink relax and enjoy it. Learn to love every bit of your company! There is nothing more freeing and empowering." ~LLL
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." ~Oscar Wilde
“If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.” ~Lord Byron
"If you're feeling alone tonight, look up. The same moon shines down on all of us." ~Fiona, The Healing Room
"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up." ~Pearl Buck
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2006
“It is often in our loneliest times that God speaks the loudest.” ~Mandy Hale
"It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone." ~Anon
"Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone." ~Paul Tillich
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” ~Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum LP
"Moments of solitude with Mother Nature, is sunshine to a soul." ~A.D. Williams
"My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored." ~C.E.M. Joad
"People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.” ~Kim Culbertson
"Most people do not understand the wisdom of a free person. Such free spirits often become lonely in life. But the world needs them!" ~Wikr
"Sometimes we need to be alone and feel the serenity of our hearts in tune with our Creator." ~Dra. Crispin's Vedra-Diego
"Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone, but the important thing is to keep dancing." ~Jack Canfield
"Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself." ~Robert Tew
"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person – without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other." ~Osho
"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to." ~Carl Jung
"The quietness and the solitude strengthens and calms me at the same time." ~Louise Henderson
"The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before." ~Albert Einstein
"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
“There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.” ~Abraham Ibn Esra
"To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions." ~Deepak Chopra
"To some people, the idea of being alone doesn’t sound very appealing. In fact, many people view it as something negative and to be avoided. If I’m alone, they think, there must be something wrong with me. In many instances, they may even seem to prefer other people’s company to their own. The truth is, they might actually be afraid to be alone with themselves. I know this because this had been true for me many years ago." ~Barb Schmidt on Alone Time
"To talk out loud when one is alone is as it were to have a dialogue with the divinity within." ~Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs (1869) "L'Homme Qui Rit"
"We aren't meant to be alone. And we aren't meant to be alike." ~Zanne Butler
"What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges..." ~Thomas Merton
"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed." ~Ernest Hemingway, Nobel laureate speech
"You can have a lot of friends and still feel alone. That's why it's always important to take care of you." ~Deep Life Quotes
"You may feel lost and alone, but God knows exactly where you are, and He has a good plan for your life." ~Anon
"You must be able to stand alone, indifferent to companionship, indifferent to loneliness, because they do not exist. For, if you are in love with Life, Life has no loneliness, has no companionship. It IS." ~Anon
"You see, you are not educated to be alone. Do you ever go out for a walk by yourself? It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree—not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself—and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind. If you are able to be alone and watch these things, then you will discover extraordinary riches which no government can tax, no human agency can corrupt, and which can never be destroyed." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
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"Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone, but the important thing is to keep dancing." ~Jack Canfield
"Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself." ~Robert Tew
"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person – without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other." ~Osho
"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to." ~Carl Jung
"The quietness and the solitude strengthens and calms me at the same time." ~Louise Henderson
"The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before." ~Albert Einstein
"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
“There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.” ~Abraham Ibn Esra
"To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions." ~Deepak Chopra
"To some people, the idea of being alone doesn’t sound very appealing. In fact, many people view it as something negative and to be avoided. If I’m alone, they think, there must be something wrong with me. In many instances, they may even seem to prefer other people’s company to their own. The truth is, they might actually be afraid to be alone with themselves. I know this because this had been true for me many years ago." ~Barb Schmidt on Alone Time
"To talk out loud when one is alone is as it were to have a dialogue with the divinity within." ~Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs (1869) "L'Homme Qui Rit"
"We aren't meant to be alone. And we aren't meant to be alike." ~Zanne Butler
"What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges..." ~Thomas Merton
"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed." ~Ernest Hemingway, Nobel laureate speech
"You can have a lot of friends and still feel alone. That's why it's always important to take care of you." ~Deep Life Quotes
"You may feel lost and alone, but God knows exactly where you are, and He has a good plan for your life." ~Anon
"You must be able to stand alone, indifferent to companionship, indifferent to loneliness, because they do not exist. For, if you are in love with Life, Life has no loneliness, has no companionship. It IS." ~Anon
"You see, you are not educated to be alone. Do you ever go out for a walk by yourself? It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree—not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself—and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind. If you are able to be alone and watch these things, then you will discover extraordinary riches which no government can tax, no human agency can corrupt, and which can never be destroyed." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
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