It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
Mahatma Gandhi
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
Albert Einstein
Living alone, though it may not be the state you ultimately desire for yourself, affords an unparalleled opportunity to know yourself, to be yourself, and to develop yourself as a unique and interesting individual.
Phillis Hobe
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death — ourselves.
Eda LeShan
Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.
Guillermo Maldonado
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Rumi
Being solitary isn’t a disease that needs a cure.
Natasha Pulley
Alone time is the best time. But it never seems that way when it’s happening, just after the fact.
Naval Ravikant
Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.
Christopher Barzak
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self sufficient.
Michel de Montaigne
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
Rollo May
No great creative work can ever be done without the help of solitude. There is a reason why the greatest creators of all time, and the profoundest of thinkers have all been introverts.
@TheAncientSage
It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
Marilyn Monroe
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
Deb Caletti
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
Albert Einstein
To love someone else, I must first love myself.
Unknown
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
Shannon L. Alder
Enduring loneliness is almost invariably better than suffering the compromises of false community.
Alain de Botton
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry Rollins
Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.
Mahatma Gandhi
I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.
Augusten Burroughs
Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.
Naval Ravikant
Sometimes the worst place to be is in your head.
Unknown
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.
Douglas Coupland
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude Stein
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it’s also the walk that makes you the strongest.
Unknown
We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.
Hafiz of Persia
The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.
Hugh MacLeod
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel alone.
Robin Williams
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
Vladimir Putin
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
Lao Tzu
I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.
Mahatma Gandhi
I restore myself when I’m alone.
Marilyn Monroe
I don’t want to be alone. I want to be left alone.
Audrey Hepburn
Feeling lonely is fine. Staying this way forever is not.
Maxime Lagacé
I’m a lion in a strange land.
Criss Jami
I might be alone, but I’m never lonely.
Megan Hart