“I’m fiercely independent, but I’m also terrified of being alone.”
― Adam Levine
“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.”
― Alice Koller
“We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.”
― Andrew Haigh
“I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.”
― Ari Graynor
“I’m the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it’s the best of both possible worlds.”
― Ariel Dorfman
“Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone.”
― Arnold Rothstein
“I think a large part of being human centers on the state of being alone, and we try to mitigate that in so many ways.”
― Ayobami Adebayo
“It’s really hard to do this life – to be a human being alone.”
― Benji Madden
“I’m an only child, and I don’t mind being alone.”
― Bianca Andreescu
“I’m quite a loner. I realized that I’m very introverted, and I get energy by being alone instead of being with other people.”
― Candice Patton
“The thought of being alone when time goes on is a little bit scary sometimes, but not really.”
― Celia Hammond
“I’m learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I’m doing.”
― Chantal Kreviazuk
“I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it’s a way of being alone.”
― Christopher Buckley
“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
“I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.”
― Cindy Williams
“I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I’m really scared of being alone; because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman.”
― Claire Danes
“I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.”
― Clare Balding
“I don’t like being alone.”
― Cristiano Ronaldo
“I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I’ve been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.”
― Diablo Cody
“Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.”
― Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.”
― Ellen Burstyn
“My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening – corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.”
― Emanuel Steward
“I had a fear of being alone.”
― Gloria Gaynor
“I don’t know if this is because I’m a bit too old, but it is true that I’m getting insensible about romance recently. I’m very used to being alone now, and I don’t think that’s not half bad.”
― Gong Yoo
“The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.”
― James Baldwin
“I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it’s just as much about loneliness.”
― Jason Schwartzman
“I’m open, and I’m out there, but I also enjoy being alone, relaxing.”
― Jazz Jennings
“All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.”
― Jean de la Bruyere
“Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time – and I liked it. I still like being alone.”
― Jeff Buckley
“It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.”
― Jeff Nichols
“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.”
― John Berger
“For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.”
― Jonathan Ames
“The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.”
― Justin Timberlake
“I like to go dancing, have a few beers. I like being alone, too. I have days where it’s ‘God, get me a shot of tequila.’”
― Justine Bateman
“Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.”
― Kangana Ranaut
“I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren’t, and as a child, I really liked it.”
― Karin Slaughter
“I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren’t, and as a child, I really liked it.”
― Karin Slaughter
“Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.”
― Karin Slaughter
“Experiencing those moments of being alone… is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you’re just not used to it… But I’ve never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.”
― Kate Winslet
“Adolescents show off. That’s another way of wanting to connect with people. It’s not an aspect of human behavior that we generally consider to be very admirable, but it is, in some way, a means of connecting with someone else and not being alone.”
― Kenneth Lonergan
“I’m so accustomed to being alone.”
― Leighton Meester
“I am not afraid of being alone and single.”
― LeToya Luckett
“I hate being alone. That’s why I like being with my friends: we’ve got energy; we’re social as hell.”
― Lil Yachty
“The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.”
― Lindsey Buckingham
“I think there is a price to being alone, and there is a price to being in a relationship. It all depends on which price you want to pay – but none of them are free.”
― Lonny Price
“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
― Lord Byron
“I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.”
― Markus Zusak
“The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.”
― Meir Kahane
“I’m calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.”
― Melissa Sue Anderson
“That’s what my music is good for – clearing out the house and being alone.”
― Mike Patton
“The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone – it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it’s also very interesting.”
― Monica Bellucci
“The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone – and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone – at night. That’s the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it’s also where the title came from for the book.”
― Paul Kane
“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.”
― Paul Tillich
“Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.”
― Paul Tillich
“Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”
― Paul Tillich
“In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.”
― Per Petterson
“I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else.”
― Richard Jenkins
“Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.”
― Rollo May
“I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.”
― Shonda Rhimes
“As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.”
― Sienna Miller
“I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not her.”
― Steve Harvey
“Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.”
― Stuart Appleby
“I wrote in coffee shops in Japan when I was 22, 23, before I had the stamina to sit down and write. I liked the buzzy environment; I couldn’t speak Japanese when I arrived, so it was kind of a white noise. It felt more sociable than being alone, but now, as I’ve developed a writing practice, I couldn’t do it.”
― Susan Barker
“Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don’t choose to see Horror movies as a rule.”
― Tom Sizemore
“Being alone is very difficult.”
― Yoko Ono
“I don’t like being alone, so I want to share these experiences and things with as many people as possible, so that is why I choose to go to the Moon with artists!”
― Yusaku Maezawa
“I think a lot of people are worried about being alone. I completely understand that. I really do. Being alone is terrifying, especially when you’ve lost people.”
― Zelda Williams
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