“She dwelt among the untrodden ways; a violet by a mossy stone half hidden from the eye!”
William Wordsworth
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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.
“O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, alone and palely loitering?”
John Keats
HeartbreakLoneliness
“Boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
EmptinessTime
“Fare thee well! and if for ever, still for ever, fare thee well.”
Lord Byron
GoodbyeHeartbreak
“I sometimes hold it half a sin to put in words the grief I feel.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
GriefSilence
“Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.”
Christina Rossetti
StruggleJourney
“I felt a Cleaving in my Mind - as if my Brain had split.”
Emily Dickinson
MindPain
“This is my letter to the World that never wrote to Me.”
Emily Dickinson
LonelinessUnheard
“I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame.”
Walt Whitman
SorrowReflection
“I wander'd off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.”
Walt Whitman
StarsSilence
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.”
Edgar Allan Poe
NightLoneliness
“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; so on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
StrangersLife
“Into my heart an air that kills from yon far country blows.”
A. E. Housman
LongingMemories
“That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”
A. E. Housman
NostalgiaLoss
“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
GriefDespair
“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, and live alone in the bee-loud glade.”
W. B. Yeats
EscapeSolitude
“And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow.”
W. B. Yeats
PeaceNature
“A lonely impulse of delight drove to this tumult in the clouds.”
W. B. Yeats
CourageFreedom
“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.”
Oscar Wilde
SorrowFaith
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do.”
Charlotte Brontë
Self-RespectIndependence
“I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
Emily Brontë
GriefLove
“I was dependent on none and related to none.”
Mary Shelley
IsolationIdentity
“Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”
Charles Dickens
IntrovertCharacter
“Let me think that there is one among those stars that guides my life through the dark unknown.”
Rabindranath Tagore
HopeStars
“Henceforth I shall know that Nature ne'er deserts the wise and pure.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
NatureComfort