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Quotes About Introspection

Being alone is very difficult.
~ Yoko Ono
All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.
~ Neal Shusterman, Everwild
By all means use some time to be alone.
~ Edward Young
I would always be lonely, but no more alone.
~ Sonya Hartnett, Surrender
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
~ Randy Quaid
It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.
~ Paloma Faith
If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.
~ Simon Van Booy
I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
~ Laura Marling
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
~ May Sarton
I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.
~ William A. Drake
Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.
~ David Levithan
There's a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do.
~ Mary Ruefle
I want to be alone with my thought.
~ Homer
There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.
~ Andrew McAleer
People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.
~ George Bernard Shaw
When it comes to the important things one is always alone.
~ May Sarton
I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.
~ Henry Rollins
We're all alone in this world.
~ Gillian Jacobs
When I'm all alone and I'm by myself, little Peter keeps me company.
~ Red Peters
I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.
~ Raymond Pettibon
Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.
~ Andrew O'Hagan
The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.
~ Ani DiFranco
Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.
~ Charles Bukowski