Alone Quotes

“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.”

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness.”

Kahlil Gibran

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

Virginia Woolf

“I restore myself when I'm alone.”

“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”

Audrey Hepburn

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

Orson Welles

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

Mother Teresa

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone; we find it with another.”

Thomas Merton

“Solitude is independence.”

Hermann Hesse

“I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern.”

“I wandered lonely as a cloud.”

William Wordsworth

“How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.”

William Wordsworth

“For solitude sometimes is best society, and short retirement urges sweet return.”

John Milton

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

Edward Gibbon

“How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!”

William Cowper

“Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide wide sea!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The Soul selects her own Society, then shuts the Door.”

Emily Dickinson

“The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

Charlotte Brontë

“From childhood's hour I have not been as others were.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”

Thomas Carlyle

“I have been one acquainted with the night.”

Robert Frost

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.”