Alone Quotes

“And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.”
― Paul Simon, Lyrics 1964-2008

“You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necessary with no regard to the damage it may do. I would be careful if I were you. Friends and objects of deities’ desires dropped like flies. In the end the gods always ended up miserable and alone."
— Kate Daniels”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes

“the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation”
― Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann

“The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.”
― Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology

“If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“أنفٌ وحيد

صينيةُ الشاي
بفناجينِها الخزفيةِ الكثيرة
بصَخبِها وكثيفِ بخارِها
برنينِ الملاعقِ على الحوافِ بعد تقليبِ السُُّكرْ
تختلفُ
عن فنجانٍ صامتٍ
وحيدْ
يجلسُ في فتورٍ فوق حافةِ مكتبٍ عتيقْ
ينتظرُ امرأةً واجمةْ.

الأبخرةُ الكثيفةْ
(التي تتقافزُ من الفناجين الكثيرة التي تختلفُ عن الفنجان الوحيد)
تحملُ رائحةَ أوراقِ الشاي الهنديِّ التي:
جمعتها أيادٍ
وجفّفتها أيادٍ
وعلبّتها وشحنتها أيادٍ،
لكي تشربَها
أيادٍ كثيرة.

ترتفعُ صيحاتُها،
الأبخرةُ،
لتعلوَ على صَخَبِ أنوفٍ كثيرة
تتحلّقُ حول صينيةٍ
في منتصفِ قاعةِ معيشة صاخبة.

بينما، مِن الفنجانِ الوحيد،
يصعدُ
خيطٌ
نحيلٌ
من البخارْ
ساكتٌ
واهنْ
يتراقصُ في منحنياتٍ ضَجِرة
ليبحث في صعوبةٍ
عن أنفِ السيدةِ التي
لا أحدَ يزورُها.”
― فاطمة ناعوت, اسمي ليس صعبًا

“On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Place

“The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.”
― Mike Norton, White Mountain

“One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.”
― Julia Gregson, East of the Sun

“I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans.”
― Karen Hesse, The Music of Dolphins

“I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.)”
― Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape & Embers

“I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.”
― Anna Godbersen, Splendor

“Sometimes isolation can be shared.”
― Ken Grimwood, Replay

“Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.”
― Dean Koontz, Chase

“Though he wouldn't dare admit that he might have felt more for her. He wasn't ready to care for a person that much when he still didn't care too highly for himself. most days Landon regarded himself as a lost soul, a wanderer. Who could love such a man?”
― Shawn Kirsten Maravel, The Wanderer

“Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss....”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

“If you are happy for a day, a thousand people notice it, but when you are sad for years, everyone just walks away.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“You have to go head, even if no one goes with you.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Foggy nights bring some comfort.
He can get lost in the mist
and there is no one to stare or question.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“He had reached the point where all he wanted on earth was to be alone.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“No,nobody but nobody can make it out her alone.”
― Maya Angelou, Poems

“They all seem infected with a vivaciousness that isn't common in our compound, and there are more smiles on their faces than I've ever seen at once. And yet as I watch them, I feel more intensely than ever the knowledge that I'm not one of them. For these moral humans, birthdays are a kind of countdown to the end, the ticking clock of a dwindling life. For me, birthdays are notches on an infinite timeline. Will I grow tired of parties one day? Will my birthday become meaningless? I imagine myself centuries from now, maybe at my three-hundredth birthday, looking all the way back to my seventeenth. How will I possibly be happy, remembering the light in my mother's eyes? The swiftness of Uncle Antonio's steps as he dances? The way my father stands on edge of the courtyard, smiling in that vague, absent way of his?

The scene shifts and blues in my imagination. As if brushed away by some invisible broom, these people whom I've known my entire life disappear. The courtyard is empty, bare, covered in decaying leaves. I imagine Little Cam deserted, with everyone dead and gone and only me left in the shadows.

Forever.”
― Jessica Khoury, Origin

“I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if I had to choose one, I would rather be alone.”
― Ted Michael, Crash Test Love

“I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.”
― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)

“THE TRUE CHARACTER OF A PERSON IN SEEN WHEN HE/SHE IS ALONE...”
― VENKATA NAVEEN KASAGANA

“And then we cowards
who loved the whispering
evening, the houses,
the paths by the river,
the dirty red lights
of those places, the sweet
soundless sorrow—
we reached our hands out
toward the living chain
in silence, but our heart
startled us with blood,
and no more sweetness then,
no more losing ourselves
on the path by the river—
no longer slaves, we knew
we were alone and alive.

(Translated By Geoffrey Brock)”
― Cesare Pavese, Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950

“Watching what happens isn’t the same as being part of it.”
― Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

“Be alone. That’s when and where you will refresh. Be a stranger someplace for some odd amount of time. Introduce you to you. Try on new thoughts like sneakers. Walk up and back. How’s the toe feel?

Recharge and welcome the new year like you’d welcome a happy puppy returning a stick. Tail wagging, tongue out. Then mix in with those who unbecame to become their best selves, too.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker