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Quotes About Aloneness

I feel that it is necessary and ordained that I should be alone, a stranger and an exile in relation to every human circle, without exception.
~ Simone Weil
two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes
~ Haruki Murakami
Alone.Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
~ Stephen King
I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone, I felt best being alone, cleaner, , ,
~ Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.
~ Jennifer Smith
It wasn't the aloneness that Liz minded. It was the silence. It echoed.
~ Amy Zhang
I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.
~ Albert Camus
She was an only child, and loneliness was one of the earliest conditions of her life.
~ John Williams
A beautiful environment can be the darkest hell if you have to experience it all alone.
~ Elliot Rodger
What were leaky roofs and cold hands and gray days and rock as compared with such riches of freedom and aloneness.
~ Elliott Merrick
Our power resides in our incapacity to know how alone we are.
~ Emil Cioran
Cu fiecare zi sîntem mai singuri. Ce grea si ce usoara trebuie sa fie ultima!
~ Emil Cioran
Did they relish their role as undesirables? Did they seek to be alone on earth in principle?
~ Emil M. Cioran
I am one of the billions dragging himself across the earth's surface. One, and no more.
~ Emil M. Cioran
I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.
~ Emily Giffin
Después cuando al fin lo conocí, pensé que transmitía una sensación de aislamiento, no se por qué. Aunque su forma de ser y de hablar eran dulces, me pareció que estaba solo.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Hell is being alone.
~ Barry Lyga
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'
~ Caroline Knapp
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
~ Caroline Knapp
The only place I want to be recognised is the red carpet or an actor, where I am in my professional capacity. Otherwise I just want to be left alone.
~ Richa Chadha
Without the correction, the reflection, the support of other presences, being is not merely unsafe, it is a horror—for anyone but God, who is His own being. For him whose idea is God's, and the image of God, his own being is far too fragmentary and imperfect to be anything like good company. It is the lovely creatures God has made all around us, in them giving us Himself, that, until we know Him, save us from the frenzy of aloneness—for that aloneness is self.
~ George MacDonald
He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.
~ George Orwell
He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side?
~ George Orwell
If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are non-existent.
~ George Orwell