“Where but to think is to be full of sorrow.”
John Keats
SorrowThinking
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.
“But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, and the sound of a voice that is still!”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Missing SomeoneLoss
“She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!'”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
LonelinessDespair
“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
SadnessTears
“And we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight.”
Matthew Arnold
LonelinessUncertainty
“Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.”
Christina Rossetti
MemoryLoss
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes - the Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs.”
Emily Dickinson
PainNumbness
“A noiseless patient spider, I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated.”
Walt Whitman
IsolationNature
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe
DreamsReality
“The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
SadnessRain
“I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
DarknessDespair
“I, a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.”
A. E. Housman
LonelinessFear
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Rudyard Kipling
IndependenceTravel
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
TravelFreedom
“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
Mary Shelley
LonelinessDarkness
“I have made a captive of myself and put me into a dungeon; and now I cannot find the key to let myself out.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
IsolationRegret
“I would prefer not to.”
Herman Melville
IntrovertFunny
“Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”
Herman Melville
EscapeMelancholy
“We live, as we dream - alone.”
Joseph Conrad
LonelinessDreams
“Flee, my friend, into thy solitude!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
SolitudeEscape
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
Blaise Pascal
UniverseFear
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood.”
Kahlil Gibran
FreedomMisunderstood
“I am like the road in the night listening to the footfalls of its memories in silence.”
Rabindranath Tagore
MemoriesSilence
“The Heart asks Pleasure - first - and then - Excuse from Pain.”
Emily Dickinson
HeartPain
“Ah, love, let us be true to one another!”
Matthew Arnold
LoveLoyalty