“Now I am alone.”
William Shakespeare
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Alone Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ALONE
Alone Quotes
Read 200 of the best alone quotes on solitude, loneliness and finding peace in your own company from Thoreau, Emerson, Emily Dickinson and more.
“Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy.”
William Shakespeare
ComfortSadness
“I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills.”
William Wordsworth
NatureLoneliness
“They flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude.”
William Wordsworth
SolitudeMemories
“Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide wide sea!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
LonelinessSea
“So lonely 'twas, that God himself scarce seemed there to be.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
LonelinessFaith
“In solitude, where we are least alone.”
Lord Byron
SolitudePeace
“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings.”
John Keats
SolitudeNature
“For solitude sometimes is best society, and short retirement urges sweet return.”
John Milton
SolitudeBalance
“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die.”
Alexander Pope
Quiet LifePeace
“I am monarch of all I survey. O Solitude! where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face?”
William Cowper
LonelinessIrony
“The Soul selects her own Society - then - shuts the Door.”
Emily Dickinson
SoulPersonal Space
“There is a solitude of space, a solitude of sea, a solitude of death, but these society shall be compared with that profounder site, that polar privacy, a soul admitted to itself.”
Emily Dickinson
SoulSolitude
“I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too?”
Emily Dickinson
LonelinessHumble
“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, all alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches, without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves.”
Walt Whitman
NatureIndependence
“From childhood's hour I have not been as others were; I have not seen as others saw.”
Edgar Allan Poe
LonelinessDifferent
“We mortal millions live alone.”
Matthew Arnold
LonelinessHuman Nature
“The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
Charlotte Brontë
Self-RespectStrength
“I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me.”
Mary Shelley
LonelinessSadness
“Every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
Charles Dickens
Human NatureMystery
“All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”
Blaise Pascal
SolitudeHappiness
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
FreedomBeing Yourself
“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”
Samuel Johnson
AdviceSolitude
“I was never less alone than when by myself.”
Edward Gibbon
SolitudeBooks
“All our misfortunes come from not being able to be alone.”
Jean de La Bruyère
SolitudeWisdom