“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
Henry David Thoreau
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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.
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
Henry David Thoreau
SolitudeFunny
“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”
Henry David Thoreau
SolitudeNature
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
IndependenceSelf-Reliance
“Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NatureWonder
“'Tis not enough to get remote from the public; 'tis not enough to shift the soil only; a man must flee from the popular conditions that have taken possession of his soul.”
Michel de Montaigne
Inner FreedomSolitude
“Since we have undertaken to live without company, let us make our happiness depend upon ourselves.”
Michel de Montaigne
Self-RelianceHappiness
“The wise man is self-sufficient.”
Seneca
Self-RelianceWisdom
“Do you ask me what you should regard as especially to be avoided? I say, crowds.”
Seneca
CrowdSolitude
“The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge.”
Marcus Aurelius
Inner PeaceMind
“The multitude of men look satisfied and pleased, as if enjoying a full banquet. I alone seem listless and still.”
Lao Tzu
DifferentStillness
“Let the Yogi constantly engage himself in yoga, remaining in a secret place by himself, with thought and self subdued, free from hope and greed.”
Bhagavad Gita
MeditationSpirituality
“I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.”
The Bible (Psalm 142:4)
LonelinessDespair
“And I, even I only, am left.”
The Bible (1 Kings 19:10)
LonelinessFaith
“I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.”
The Bible (Psalm 4:8)
PeaceComfort
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret.”
The Bible (Matthew 6:6)
PrayerSolitude
“And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.”
The Bible (Luke 5:16)
PrayerSolitude
“My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore.”
The Bible (Psalm 38:11)
LonelinessAbandonment
“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew!”
William Shakespeare
DespairSadness
“I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world.”
William Shakespeare
IsolationReflection
“I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.”
William Shakespeare
MelancholyMusic
“The Frost performs its secret ministry, unhelped by any wind.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
StillnessNature
“A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, a stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
SadnessEmptiness
“My very chains and I grew friends, so much a long communion tends to make us what we are.”
Lord Byron
IsolationHabit
“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.”
John Keats
MelancholyNight