Alone Quotes

“Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed.”
― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

“Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

“We all do have our own reasons for being alone; in my case, I just don’t like wasting my time on some assholes.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“as a child
i suppose
i was not quite
normal.


my happiest times were
when
i was left alone in
the house on a
saturday.”
― Charles Bukowski

“What was the point of being himself if he had to be alone?”
― Austin Chant, Peter Darling

“Eventually, we all end up alone.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.”
― Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

“He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“Nobody makes anybody enlightened.
Just tell them what you want to say,
then let them decide for themselves.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.”
― Aimee Bender, The Color Master: Stories

“There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“I remain someone of little consequence, as if nothing more than dandelion fluff caught on a breeze.”
― Kelly Moran, Exposure

“Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“I know you adore Father, but he isn't the white knight you imagine him to be. He never was. True, he's charming and loving in his way. But he's selfish. He's a limited man determined to bring about his own end-"
"But-"
Tom grabs both my hands in his and gives them a small squeeze. "Gemma, you can't save him. Why can't you accept that?"
I see my reflection on the surface of the Thames. My face is a watery outline, all blurred edges with nothing settled.
"Because if I let go of that" - I swallow hard, once, twice - "then I have to accept that I am alone."
The ship's horn howls again as it slips out toward sea. Tom's reflection appears beside mine, just as uncertain.
"We're every one of us alone in this world, Gemma." He doesn't say it bitterly. "But you have company, if you want.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves
- except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreement between friends.
Other than these, we go out anonymous into the insect air and all we are is the dust of colour, brief engineerings of wings towards a glint of light on a blade of grass or a leaf in a summer dark.”
― Ali Smith, How to be Both

“In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.
We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.”
― Steven Wilson

“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

“I never wanted to be alone, but I always opted for loneliness. I am an emotional, sensitive and expressive creature. I cannot detach my feelings, never could I control. I fall in love and I can be easily broken.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“Lonely is not being alone,
Lonely is being with people you can't trust or rely on.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Sometimes distance was easier than acting, or explaining.”
― Laura Kaye, Hearts in Darkness

“My dear,
A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

For the world has given up on beauty. It doesn’t believe in fairytales anymore, or happy endings.

So a soul that sees beauty is a soul thought to be insane by the majority. They call it stuck up, delusional, and abnormal – all because it sees something better that it can hold out for.

But, if my words mean anything – hold out for that beauty. Walk alone until you grab it. The pain of walking alone against the stream is worth it.

Falsely yours”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I was caged within a four dimensional cube that eclipsed the world around me in an icy mist. I screamed; begging someone, anyone to hear my pleas, but my voice had been extinguished and left me with a slight wheeze from what little oxygen I had. I could glimpse the field of energy as it shrank through the safety of my circle to envelop me in a blazing grip. I was alone; unbearably separated from my haven.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness

“Why do I feel this alone? Basically, because I’ve always been alone. I’ve always been alone. And alone I’ll be. It’s about time I become aware of it and never forget it.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“There are people out there who do this. They pick up and they leave. Sometimes they were never really there. Other times they are with you, but in their minds they are a thousand miles away. They are taking a walk down an endless road; they are standing in a field of daisies on some unknown cliff; they are floating through space. -The Art of Leaving”
― Shilo Niziolek, Broad River Review

“My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Amrita