Max Lakutin

23 Beautiful Quotes To Help You Love Being Alone

Read this curation of breathtaking quotes if you're struggling to learn to be by yourself.
Sade Andria Zabala
June 13, 2016
“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait
Tagged: Philosophy, Identity & Self
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
Tagged: Depression, Inspirational, Summer, Surfing, strength, Finding Yourself, Self love, Spilled Ink
“Remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.”
— Ocean Vuong, Someday I’ll Love
Tagged: Depression, Alone, Spilled Ink, strength, Spoken Word, Deep Thoughts, Perspective, Loneliness
“It’s no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You’ve got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they’ve got to come. You can’t force them.”
— D.H. Lawrence, L'amant De Lady Chatterley
Tagged: Alone, Depression, Inspirational, Relationships, Life, Perspective, Finding Yourself
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tagged: Philosophy, Psychology, The Person You'll Become
“Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.”
— Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Tagged: Loneliness, Psychology, Communication, Relationships
“I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.”
— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Tagged: Alone, Love, Companionship, Relationship, Social Anxiety
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
— Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Tagged: Love, Alone, Introversion, Introspection, Being Happy Alone, Healthy Love
“When somebody else comes along and makes you feel like something special — it’s like catnip. You want more of it. You want to say: ‘Let’s get lunch sometime.’ But in the end, you are what you are no matter how somebody makes you feel. It’s just a feeling.”
— Anonymous, Humans of New York
Tagged: Identity, Cheating, Marriage, Relationships, Companionship, Loneliness, Dating, Solitude, Alone, Spilled Ink
“Yet writing a poem about something painful, she has discovered, can be her way of digesting it. 'One of the things I’ve learned is, if we try and put sadness off, it just waits. And in my experience, running away from sadness doesn’t do anybody any good.'”
— Frieda Hughes, Frieda Hughes: ‘I felt my parents were stolen’
Tagged: Poetry, Writing, Literature, Pain, Sad, Loneliness, Depression
“There are fields inside me, there are flowers growing and rivers flowing to oceans with no end.”
— Cold Cave, Oceans with no end
Tagged: Song Lyrics, Poetry, Humans as Plants, Potential, Our Power
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“All through my life I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested. Every step of the way I believe that God has been with me. And, more than ever, I know that he is with me now. I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace, and understanding. I am still learning.”
— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
Tagged: Learning, Faith in God, Courage, Life
“But here’s the deal, sweet stranger. You deserve to be the protagonist of your own wonderful, bizarre, terrifying little life. If you decide you are enough, you are enough. You don’t need to wait for some grand external validation of your worth before you offer your kindest heart to yourself.”
— Kathy Brown, A Letter To The Woman Who Won’t Buy Herself Flowers
Tagged: Selfish, Self-Love, Being Selfish, Loving Yourself
“Very easy to romanticize the present when you perceive everything as already a memory.”
— Francisco Espinoza, via twitter.com
Tagged: Romanticization, Perception, Memory
“she is
learning to take
tenderness from the
atmosphere.”
— Susan Griffin, Unremembered Country, Narrative Magazine
Tagged: tenderness, Getting The Most From Life, Being a woman, Love, Taking In The World, Beautiful Language, Beautiful Poetry, Poetry, poem, My Favorites
“If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way out.”
— Stephen Hawking, No Escape From Black Holes? Stephen Hawking Points to a Possible Exit
Tagged: Science
“Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence, a surprise.”
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.”
— Douglas Coupland, Douglas Coupland Quotes at BrainyQuote.com
Tagged: Alone, Loneliness, Being Alone
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”
— Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Tagged: Alone, lonliness, Growing Up
“Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.”
— Sade Andria Zabala, WAR SONGS
Tagged: Alone, Inspirational, Spilled Ink, Empowering, Girl Power, Independent, Free Spirit, Break Up, Loneliness