Quotes About Aloneness

Privacy, he said, was a very valuable thing. Everyone wanted a place where they could be alone occasionally.

It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.

It is better to be alone than in bad company

One of the things that I have liked all these years is to be surrounded by people who know no english. It has left me more intensely alone with my eyes and my english. I do not know if it would have been possible to have english be so all in all to me otherwise. And they none of them could read a word I wrote, most of them did not even know that I did write. No, I like living with so very many people and being all alone with english and myself.

I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people.

Stardom is a magical yet freakish situation at times. It's a cliche but very true that at times, you feel so alone, even when you're surrounded by so many people.

It's a gorgeous oddity of our existence – our loneliness is not caused by being on our own. Indeed, loneliness is best cured with aloneness, which is to say, a meaningful connection to ourselves.

I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.

I'd thrown everyone's number out. Nothing could be done. I was gone from everyone.

The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered "Shhh, I'm here, its alright." After three weeks, he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness.

Aloneness is not always the same thing as loneliness.

The complete absence of a desire to please, or to put someone at their ease, could, in a less vulnerable person, have been construed as arrogance. In her it came across as a kind of reckless aloneness.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility.

Relationship Time to Aloneness. Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present.

Human beings like us may never have evolved before and may never evolve again in this or any other universe. As far as anyone knows, we are alone in an inconceivably vast cosmos that has no interest at all in our fate. I do not believe that I existed in any meaningful sense before my birth or will exist again after my death either here on earth or in a heaven, a hell, or any other realm.

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!

I couldn't think. I couldn't feel. I just existed—me,

A man by himself is in bad company.

It was the apparent isolation of the place that touched her; it was somewhere she felt she could be separated from the rest of the world.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Why have you taken my heart from me? I am not justice nor loyalty. I am the shape of the weathercock, That all winds come to and all winds mock. You are the image of the sea-carved stone, The silent thing that can suffer alone, The little women are easier, The easy women make lighter love, I will not take your face to war, I will not carry your cast-off glove.

Alone in a world with millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in our dreams unhealthy, unclean Walking in circles, now Do not disturb, scream in silence Everyone's sleeping