Solitude is independence.
Herman HesseAs a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Herman HesseLove is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Thomas MertonIt is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert EinsteinNobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
Haruki MurakamiAlone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Helen KellerI live in that solitude which is painful in youth but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert EinsteinIt is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
Herman HesseLove consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria RilkeSeek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
Maya AngelouMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan WattsAll alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!
Dr. SeussTrust and start walking. We are not alone in the dark, our path will unfold as we move.
Paulo CoelhoWith every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
Oprah WinfreyThe worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
Mark TwainHuman beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
Paulo CoelhoWalking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen KellerWhy do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
Haruki MurakamiI alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother TeresaLove would never leave us alone.
Bob MarleyMy heart never knew loneliness until you went away.
UnknownDo not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother TeresaI have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
Kahlil GibranHealth consists with temperance alone.
Alexander PopeForget sex, or politics, or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Doug CouplandThe superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
ConfuciusHe travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard KiplingThe soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThen stirs the feeling infinite so felt, In solitude where we are least alone.
Lord ByronI owe my solitude to other people.
Alan WattsEvery government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas JeffersonBlood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin LutherSometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case the thought is staggering.
R. Buckminster FullerI love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David ThoreauChildren, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore de BalzacLoneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother TeresaIt is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIn solitude where we are least alone.
Lord ByronBeing prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
Margaret ThatcherHaving abandoned the ways of darkness, let the wise follow the light. Having come from home to homelessness, let him enjoy the bliss of solitude so difficult to achieve.
BuddhaVirtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
ConfuciusOne travels more usefully when alone because he reflects more.
Thomas JeffersonPeople used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together, and they were scared of being alone.
Chuck PalahniukThe man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David ThoreauRemember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
John C. MaxwellIf it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George CarlinThe monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert EinsteinDeath is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody AllenThe biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother TeresaDoubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil GibranMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya AngelouThere is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Henry David ThoreauTo follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin FranklinI'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. SeussWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceSolitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.
Herman HesseThis life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
BuddhaIt is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonSolitude is painful when one is young but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert EinsteinNo memory is ever alone, it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Louis L'AmourSelfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.
Sai BabaNothing ever exists entirely alone, everything is in relation to everything else.
BuddhaEven cats grow lonely and anxious.
Mason CooleyHe who studies books alone will know how things ought to be and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice WalkerBefore the throne of the Almighty man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Mahatma GandhiIt is the fight alone that pleases us not the victory.
Blaise PascalIs he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Charles LindberghLiving alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Mason CooleyUnconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. KennedyI am also the target of such comments people do not understand the way of God. How can they know why particular event takes place at a particular time in a particular manner? He alone can know. But people try to sit in judgment and talk ill when for example one dies of illness at this place how can anyone escape death?
Sai BabaThe courage to face the trials and to bring... possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience that is the hero's deed. We have only to follow the heros path and where we had thought to find abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves... Where we had thought to travel outward we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we will be with all the world.
Joseph CampbellEveryday the mail brings the thousands of letters and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet I do not take the help of anyone else even to open the envelopes. For you write to me intimate details of your personal problems believing that I alone will read them and having implicit confidence in Me. You write each one only a single letter that makes for Me a huge bundle a day, and I have to go through all of them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.
Sai BabaDo not worry about anything. Place yourself fully at His disposal He knows. He has written the Play and He knows how it will end and how it will go on. Yours is but to act and retire. The Lord alone is aware of the Play for His is the Plan! You see only the part of the Play on the stage and so it is all very confused. When the entire story is unfolded then you will appreciate His plan not until then, for that you will have to get behind the screen of Maya and contact the Director Himself.
Sai BabaI am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable I tolerate them, if I find them too obnoxious I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. HeinleinThere's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say oh God I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.
Drew BarrymoreNothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge