Alone Quotes to Rekindle Your Inner Motivation in the Quiet

The word "alone" has both connotations that are good and bad. It means that you are alone and not with anybody else. It may indicate social isolation brought on by a bad attitude, but it also shows a conscious desire for seclusion. Depending on the goal and attitude one adopts toward solitude, one can discover introspection, creativity, and serenity when by themselves.

Alone Quotes

1. “It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.”
– Marilyn Monroe

2. “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
– Anthony Burgess

3. “What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.”
– Ellen Burstyn

4. “As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.”
– Sienna Miller

5. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
– Henry Rollins

6. “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity”
– Albert Einstein

7. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “Being alone has a power that very few people can handle.”
– Steven Aitchison

9. “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.”
– Paul Tillich

10. “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

11. “When the world makes me feel like I am alone, love reminds me otherwise.”
– Steve Maraboli

12. “I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.”
– Robin Williams

13. “We come into this world alone, and we leave the same way.”
– Jean Grey

14. “If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.”
– Michael Josephson

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

16. “I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are a necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still.”
– Steve Goodier

17. “It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
– Marilyn Monroe

18. “It’s only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.”
– Mizu Sahara

19. “What has really happened when you feel alone is that you’ve abandoned yourself. You have stopped taking care of your own basic needs — you don’t value yourself, you don’t listen to your own thoughts, and you don’t take care of your physical, emotional, or spiritual self. This is what is causing you to feel alone. You have abandoned you.”
– Gregg Michaelsen

20. “I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
– Audrey Hepburn

21. “But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that’s not such a bad thing.”
– Julianna Baggott

22. “Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”
– Cheryl Strayed

23. “I think it’s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
– Amy Sedaris

24. “There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

25. “There is something immaculate about loneliness that only lonely people can understand.”
– Munia Khan

26. “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.”
– Pau Tillich

27. “I am not alone, in my aloneness.”
– T. Scott McLeod

28. “Don’t you realize the Internet is just a way for millions of sad people to be completely alone together?”
– Wayne Gladstone

29. “All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!”
– Dr. Seuss

30. “Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
– Thomas Wolfe

31. “I’m not much but I’m all I have.”
– Philip K. Dick

32. “All great and precious things are lonely.”
– John Steinbeck

33. “Being alone has a power that very few people can handle.”
– Steven Aitchison

34. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

35. “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

36. “Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”
– Charlie Chaplin

37. “I love to be alone. I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
– Henry David Thoreau

38. “In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”
– Laurence Sterne

39. “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
– Hafez-e Shirazi

40. “The sun is alone too, but it still shines.”
– Uncredited

41. “I restore myself when I’m alone.”
– Marilyn Monroe

42. “There is magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

43. “When I get lonely these days, I think: So Be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

44. “Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.”
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

45. “Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.”
– Charlotte Eriksson

46. “People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn’t realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that.”
– S.H. Kolee

47. “You only grow when you are alone.”
– Paul Newman

48. “The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
– Henrick Ibsen

49. “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
– Albert Einstein

50. “Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”
– Pablo Picasso

51. “My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening – corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.”
– Emanuel Steward

52. “Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.”
– Mandy Hale

53. “Sitting alone, sleeping alone, acting alone, let the diligent one enjoy the forest, taming the self alone.”
– Buddha

54. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
– Michel de Montaigne

55. “My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”
– Warsan Shire

56. “By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.”
– George Herbert

57. “Loneliness is sad, and aloneness is blissful.”
– Osho

58. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
– Henry Rollins

59. “If you make friends with yourself, you’ll never be alone.”
– Maxwell Maltz

60. “Solitude is independence.”
– Herman Hesse