Alone Quotes

“In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.”

William Shakespeare

“How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.”

William Shakespeare

“Behold her, single in the field, yon solitary Highland Lass!”

William Wordsworth

“When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign, is Solitude.”

William Wordsworth

“Like one, that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.”

Lord Byron

“But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, to hear, to see, to feel and to possess, and roam along, the world's tired denizen, this is to be alone; this, this is solitude!”

Lord Byron

“Then on the shore of the wide world I stand alone, and think till love and fame to nothingness do sink.”

John Keats

“Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“'I am half sick of shadows,' said the Lady of Shalott.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Alas! I have nor hope nor health, nor peace within nor calm around.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

John Milton

“Happy the man, whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.”

Alexander Pope

“Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, some boundless contiguity of shade.”

William Cowper

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

Thomas Gray

“Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.”

Thomas Gray

“It might be lonelier without the Loneliness.”

Emily Dickinson

“Alone, I cannot be - for Hosts - do visit me.”

Emily Dickinson

“Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt, wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee.”

Walt Whitman

“And all I lov'd, I lov'd alone.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

Charlotte Brontë

“I'm happiest when most away I can bear my soul from its home of clay.”

Emily Brontë

“Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.”

Mary Shelley

“Solitude is the fate of all great minds - a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.”

Rabindranath Tagore