Alone Quotes

“Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“So many people are so terrified to be alone that they settle for a loveless relationship or stay trapped in a miserable one for months and even years on end. But as it turns out, alone means unique, unequaled, and unexcelled. Or in other words: Unparalleled. Unrepeatable. Unable to be imitated or duplicated. Brave. FABULOUSLY ORIGINAL.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life.

[Written to his wife, Mileva]”
― Albert Einstein

“You don’t know what it means to be betrayed!
Should I explain it to you? It means to be treated like trash and your feelings get stepped on…
you get hurt over and over again and in the end you are left alone!
Can’t you see how much I care for you? How hard I’m trying to connect with you?
When did I ever betray you?
When did I ever leave you alone?”
― Yuuki Obata, We Were There, Vol. 1

“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment.”
― Cynthia Hand, Boundless

“I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last. But I gave it up.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges?”
― Brandon Andress, And Then the End Will Come!: But Five Things You Need to Know in the Meantime

“When the world makes me feel like I am alone, love reminds me otherwise.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I'm always surprised when it's noticed by others.”
― Amy Wilensky, Passing for Normal

“And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“And I think, "I'm so fucking lonely". I go home and cry for a while. I am almost 32. That's not old especially in New York. But the fact is it has been years since I even liked someone. So how likely is it I'll meet someone I love enough to marry? I'm tired of not knowing who I'll be with, or if I'll be with anyone.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“What I'm trying to say is that I spent the last four months learning to be alone, avoiding the world, hating pretty much anyone who so much as blinked at me." But when I am with you, I don't want to be that person anymore.”
― Andrea Cremer

“But he also knew that, as much as he wanted to aid and console the soldier, he wanted to be alone in his room with the night coming down and a book close by and pen and paper and the knowledge that the door would remain shut until the morning came and he would ne be disturbed. The gap between these two desires filled him with sadness and awe at the mystery of the self, the mystery of having a single consciousness, knowing merely its own bare feelings and experiencing singly and alone it own pain or fear or pleasure or complacency.”
― Colm Tóibín, The Master

“There pass the careless people
That call their souls their own:
Here by the road I loiter,
How idle and alone.

Ah, past the plunge of plummet,
In seas I cannot sound,
My heart and soul and senses,
World without end, are drowned.

His folly has not fellow
Beneath the blue of day
That gives to man or woman
His heart and soul away.

There flowers no balm to sain him
From east of earth to west
That's lost for everlasting
The heart out of his breast.

Here by the labouring highway
With empty hands I stroll:
Sea-deep, till doomsday morning,
Lie lost my heart and soul.”
― A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

“Where they had once ambled alone, they now walked together home.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“Every choice we make affects the other. It always has… We share our choices and our burdens. But that way neither of us has to carry the weight alone—You have never been alone.”
― Olivia Fuller, Something Wicked

“I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the amount of attention and love I receive from Mami’s family. In New York, I’m invisible.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story--if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other place to start from. Tell yourself that you are going to listen for the sound of your own voice--and remind yourself when you forget. And you will forget, over and over again.”
― Florence Falk, On My Own: The Art of Being a Woman Alone

“They were drinking, laughing and dancing, but I was sitting alone in the corner and talking to your soul.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry

“Home. the word always had air quotes around it in her mind. She'd done what she could to make her flat cozy, filling it with art, books, ornate lanterns, and a Persian carpet as soft as lynx fur. And of course there were her angel wings taking up one whole wall. But there was no help for the real emptiness; its close air was stirred by no breath but her own. When she was alone, the empty place within her, the missingness, as she thought of it, seemed to swell. Even being with Kaz had done something to keep it at bay, though not enough. Never enough.”
― Laini Taylor

“Vienatvė ieško kelionės draugo, neklausdama, kas jis. Kas to nesupranta, tas niekada nebuvo vienišas, o tik vienas.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Night in Lisbon

“You are alone, I am alone; we don’t get together why we complain so much.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry

“You are never alone; if you can talk to your conscience.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“It's hard to pretend you're OK. Especially when you're all by urself, alone. :'(”
― Marlon Roxas