Checkout our exhaustive collection of Being Alone quotes to inspire you in solitude. Understand that solitude does not necessarily equate to loneliness. It give you an opportunity to get in sync with your inner world.

1. Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone. — Jim Evans
2. Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone. — Agnes Macphail
6. The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. — Pearl S. Buck
7. I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone. — Jane Fonda
8. I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. — Henry David Thoreau
9. My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark. — William Tyndale
10. I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country. — Carre Otis
11. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal. — William Hazlitt
13. Largely this is a class thing – writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it – being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts – it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can’t just live in my head. — Tony Parsons
14. Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
15. I’m a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I’m making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime. — Glenn Beck
16. Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling
19. Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. — Martin Luther
21. It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. — Marcel Proust
22. The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. — Mao Zedong
23. Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay. — Sam Abell
24. No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. — Martha Beck

25. I don’t know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me. — Joseph Barbera
27. Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind. — Michael Patrick King
28. Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. — Ferdinand Marcos
29. I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness. — Bell Hooks
30. Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit. — William Shirley
31. We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. — Epictetus
32. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer
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33. The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. — Rene Descartes
34. I mean, I’ve always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else’s hair. — Clint Eastwood
35. Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. — Charles Wesley
37. We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere
38. I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. ‘Hey, man, what are you playing?’ ‘Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I’m performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!’ — Demetri Martin
39. At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. — Jean de la Bruyere
40. Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
41. I think about dying. I’ve come to realize we all die alone in one way or another. — Richard Pryor
43. It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze. — Andre Rieu
45. That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone. — Slick Rick
46. I’m done with men… I’m going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don’t think I’m made for marriage. — Halle Berry
47. The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation. — James Monroe
48. There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. — Michel de Montaigne
49. God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. — Paul Valery

50. Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. — Sigmund Freud
51. The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want. — Justin Timberlake
52. The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China. — Jennifer Granholm
53. Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
54. By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians. — Kevin Rudd
55. It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. — Muhammad Iqbal
56. At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. — Boris Pasternak
57. I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone. — Elayne Boosler
59. Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ‘Are your ready?’ — Johnny Carson
60. It’s important to say that actors can’t act alone, it’s impossible. What we have to do is support each other. — Philip Seymour Hoffman
61. Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don’t choose to see Horror movies as a rule. — Tom Sizemore
63. I’m really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind. — Sarah McLachlan
64. Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. — John Jay Chapman
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65. I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it’s just as much about loneliness. — Jason Schwartzman
67. Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart. — Martin Luther
69. The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. — Vaclav Havel
70. If I’m alone too long I think too much, and I’m not interested in doing that. That won’t lead anywhere good, I’m sure. If I’m busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil’s playground. — Lisa Marie Presley
71. None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. — Thomas Carlyle
72. Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. — Ludwig van Beethoven
73. Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived. — Walter Annenberg
74. The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. — Henry Adams

75. Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire. — Quintilian
76. Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital. — Keith Richards
77. An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. — Henry Miller
79. Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone. — Grover Norquist
80. ‘Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone. — Thomas More
82. Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. — Octavio Paz
83. Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone. — Phyllis McGinley
84. I don’t know. I think it’s funny! I think it’s funny! I go, what? It’s so absurd. I’m alone. — Danny DeVito
87. You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it’s supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you’re doing and make the action work for that and for the character. — David R. Ellis
89. For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? — Virginia Woolf
91. I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff. — Nicholas Hoult
92. It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there’s the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there’s the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. — Jello Biafra
93. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. — Thomas Merton
94. I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can’t find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. — Elizabeth Gilbert
96. Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world. — Mike Fitzpatrick
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97. I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. — Johnny Cash
98. I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel. — Audrey Hepburn
99. We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams

100. I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I’m dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They’re nowhere. I know they’re nowhere and they don’t exist, but if nowhere means that’s where they are, that’s where I want to be. — Maurice Sendak
101. Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering. — R. Buckminster Fuller
102. I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone. — Cathy Freeman
103. We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere
104. Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it’s off the better. — Horatio Nelson
105. I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. — Mary Oliver
106. Man’s ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. — Paul Tillich
107. For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced – in his smallness of mind – that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone – against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts – that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d. — Meir Kahane
109. Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. — Kurt Vonnegut
110. People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. — Chuck Palahniuk
111. You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don’t realize what it’s really like. — Lenny Kravitz
112. In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone. — Dar Williams
115. Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge. — Muhammad Iqbal
116. There’s this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you. — Simon Pegg
117. Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. — Ayn Rand
118. If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. — Anne Bronte
120. I don’t think nationalism is alone holding the field it’s in contention with a lot of different things. — Peter Singer
121. Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. — Jessamyn West
122. I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life. — Charles Bukowski
123. What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. — Albert Pike

125. Life’s an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. — Emily Carr
126. Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
127. Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn’t interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they’ve worked hard to have. — Mike Huckabee
128. If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want – I go to the bathroom. — Alicia Keys
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129. Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. — Guru Nanak
132. Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now. — Fiona Apple
133. Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it. — Akhenaton
134. Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you. — John Muir
135. I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world. — Ellen Page
136. Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. — Daniel Day-Lewis
138. Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us. — Charles de Secondat
140. Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. — Booker T. Washington
141. Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. — Joseph Conrad
142. Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. — Charles Bukowski
143. Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone. — David Brooks
145. I’ve always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I’ve got them pegged, I pay for it. — Andrew Stanton
146. And if you don’t believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. — Chris Cornell
148. By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. — David Ricardo
149. When I’m online, I’m alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. — Clifford Stoll

150. I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I’m really scared of being alone because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman. — Claire Danes
152. Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. — Mary Baker Eddy
155. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love. — Reinhold Niebuhr
156. Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. — John Dryden
158. I’m the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone. — Peter O’Toole
159. The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true. — George W. Bush
160. Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today. — Uwe Boll
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161. The best part about being with a group is that you don’t have to do everything alone. You’re with your friends. — Justin Timberlake
162. Those who remember Washington’s cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan’s intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva – alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! – with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. — Russell Baker
165. Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. — Mahatma Gandhi
166. What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone. — Hermann Broch
167. It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, ‘We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we’re not, we cling to.’ — Gabriel Byrne
168. Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. — Alfred North Whitehead
169. You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. — Toni Morrison
170. Not drunk is he who from the floor – Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. — Thomas Love Peacock
171. In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! — Ivan Turgenev
172. Hiking is the best workout!… You can hike for three hours and not even realize you’re working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself. — Jamie Luner
173. No 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’Amour
174. I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons. — Susan Wojcicki

176. Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong. — Mira Nair
178. No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be. — Mitch Daniels
179. I have Graham Greene’s telephone number, but I wouldn’t dream of using it. I don’t seek out writers because we all want to be alone. — Patricia Highsmith
181. Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone. — Georg Solti
182. Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to. — Stuart Appleby
183. In today’s interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone. — Michelle Bachelet
184. I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
185. I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I’m living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone. — Ashley Judd
188. The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone. — Joe Rogan
191. I tour alone. There’s no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it’s really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it’s a new relationship being built. It’s odd and wonderful. — Jane Siberry
192. I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don’t date. It’s hard to date when you’re at home. Nobody knows you. — Anna Nicole Smith
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193. I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don’t believe it exists. I’ve felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. — Thor Heyerdahl
194. Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. — Alice Koller
195. I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important. — Shay Mitchell
196. Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. — Franz Kafka
197. The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account. — Leland Stanford
199. I’m not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago. — Chris Hemsworth
