“I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.”Henry David Thoreau
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Alone Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ALONE
Alone Quotes
Read 200 of the best alone quotes about solitude, loneliness and inner strength from Henry David Thoreau, May Sarton, Albert Einstein, Rabindranath Tagore, Helen Keller and more.
“We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.”Henry David Thoreau
LonelinessCrowds
“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
GeniusSolitude
“I am truly a "lone traveller" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.”
Albert Einstein
IndependenceIndividuality
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”
Albert Einstein
CreativityQuiet Life
“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.”Leonardo da Vinci
IndependenceSolitude
“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”Friedrich Nietzsche
LonelinessCaution
“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”Friedrich Nietzsche
Standing AloneGrowth
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
BeautyWalking Alone
“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
InspirationSolitude
“No coward soul is mine.”
Emily Brontë
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”Walt Whitman
Self AcceptanceShort Quotes
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Rudyard Kipling
IndependenceJourney
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”
Pearl S. Buck
RenewalInner Peace
“Solitude is the way by which destiny endeavours to lead man to himself.”
Hermann Hesse
Self DiscoveryDestiny
“Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present.”
Thomas Merton
Present MomentSolitude
“Solitude is the furnace of transformation.”
Henri Nouwen
TransformationGrowth
“I feel we are all islands, in a common sea.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
ConnectionHumanity
“Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
CreativitySolitude
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.”
Mother Teresa
SilenceFaith
“Solitude is in the mind of man.”
Ramana Maharshi
MindInner Peace
“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”Swami Vivekananda
Self RelianceSpirituality
“Let the yogi, sitting alone in a secluded place, constantly engage the mind, with mind and body controlled.”
The Bhagavad Gita
MeditationDiscipline
“Be a lamp unto yourself.”Buddha
Self RelianceShort Quotes
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
African Proverb
TeamworkJourney