“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
PresenceLove
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.
“I sustain myself with the love of family.”Maya Angelou
“Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.”
Fred Rogers
New BeginningsHope
“All real living is meeting.”
Martin Buber
ConnectionShort Quotes
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
Simone Weil
AttentionKindness
“The most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
Kurt Vonnegut
CommunityLoneliness
“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”
Norman Cousins
LonelinessHumanity
“I am a part of all that I have met.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
ConnectionPoetry
“The world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs.”Rabindranath Tagore
PainCreativity
“Each soul is potentially divine.”Swami Vivekananda
SoulShort Quotes
“He who sees all beings in his own self and his own self in all beings loses all fear.”
The Upanishads
OnenessFearlessness
“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.”Lao Tzu
Self MasteryStrength
“I am because we are.”
African Proverb
UbuntuCommunity
“A person is a person through other persons.”
Desmond Tutu
UbuntuConnection
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
Søren Kierkegaard
CourageSelf Discovery
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
Victor Hugo
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
Self AcceptanceChange
“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
ResilienceMindfulness
“Only connect!”
E. M. Forster
ConnectionShort Quotes
“It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.”
Irish Proverb
CommunitySupport
“Let us win from ourselves the power to live really alone and to live that way at our ease.”
Michel de Montaigne
IndependenceSolitude
“All our unhappiness comes from not being able to be alone.”
Jean de La Bruyère
HappinessSolitude
“A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”
Francis Bacon
LonelinessLove
“I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me.”
William Hazlitt
NatureSolitude
“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
ChildhoodPoetry