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Quotes About Aloneness

Loneliness is the human condition, get used to it.
~ Janet Fitch
Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers
~ Tim Winton
We find for a moment, here and there, those amazing times where the companionship of another resists the aloneness. It can be as simple as the grace note of a stranger holding the door for you. Or it can be as deep and complex as the bond of a soul mate who understands every nuance of your struggle with the world and gives you complete love of mind and body. Yet, in the end we're still alone.
~ Todd Borg
How alone I am in life! How terribly alone!
~ Oscar Wilde
But you and I, love, we are together from our clothes down to our roots: together in the autumn, in water, in hips, until we can be alone together—only you, only me.
~ Pablo Neruda
Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.
~ Parmenides
I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.
~ Jim Harrison
Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
~ The Joker Heath Ledger
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
~ Audrey Hepburn
Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
~ Grace Jones
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
~ Edward George, Baron George
I am nothing. I'm like someone who's been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.
~ Haruki Murakami
Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
~ T. S. Eliot
I prize the privilege of being alone.
~ Carl Rogers
Only when you can accept that you are alone, will you discover that you are not alone.
~ Leonard Jacobson
Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
~ Margaret Cho
And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.
~ Anita Loos
I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
~ Laura Marling
Moving makes you feel all alone inside.
~ Barbara Park
Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.
~ Steve Martin
Lotus Eaters is a movie about people who can't really be alone, but they're always alone, really, even when they're together.
~ Alexandra McGuinness