Quotes on alone time to inspire you to have quality alone time and showcase why it is important to have more time alone.
“Alone doesn’t mean lonely. It just means alone. It just means that for now, you’re on your own, and that’s not a terrible thing.”
Hemal Jhaveri
1. I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They’re just not around at the moment. ― Cynthia Hand
2. “It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.” ― Marilyn Monroe
3. When the world makes me feel like I am alone, love reminds me otherwise. ― Steve Maraboli
4. “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” ― Anthony Burgess
5. I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone. — Robin Williams
6. “It’s easy to stand with the crowd it takes courage to stand alone”
7. We come into this world alone, and we leave the same way. — Jean Grey (Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 1, Issue 303, Scott Lobdell)
8. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” -Henry Rollins
9. If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life. — Michael Josephson
10. “I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone; it’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.”
11. You are never alone; if you can talk to your conscience. ― M.F. Moonzajer
12. “Sometimes, you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.”
13. I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still. ― Steve Goodier
14. “You smile, but you wanna cry. You talk, but you wanna be quiet. You pretend like you’re happy, but you aren’t.”
15. It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far. — Marilyn Monroe
16. “Sometimes, you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.”
17. I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone. — Audrey Hepburn
18. “What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” – Ellen Burstyn
19. It’s only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade. — Mizu Sahara
20. “As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.” -Sienna Miller
21. What has really happened when you feel alone is that you’ve abandoned yourself. You have stopped taking care of your own basic needs — you don’t value yourself, you don’t listen to your own thoughts, and you don’t take care of your physical, emotional, or spiritual self. This is what is causing you to feel alone. You have abandoned you. — Gregg Michaelsen
22. “Once you start loving your own presence, you stop chasing people in your life.”
23. But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that’s not such a bad thing. ― Julianna Baggott
24. “Sometimes you just need to be alone and let your tears out.”
25. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was. — Cheryl Strayed
26. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
27. I think it’s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone. — Amy Sedaris
28. “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity” -Albert Einstein
29. There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
30. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. There is something immaculate about loneliness which only lonely people can understand. — Munia Khan
32. “Being alone has a power that very few people can handle.” -Steven Aitchison
33. Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. — Pau Tillich
34. “Better to be with no one than to be with the wrong one.”
35. I am not alone, in my aloneness. ― T. Scott McLeod
36. “I’m learning a lot about myself being alone.”
37. Don’t you realize the Internet is just a way for millions of sad people to be completely alone together? ― Wayne Gladstone
38. “The sun is alone too. And he’s still shining.”
39. All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot! — Dr. Seuss
40. “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” -Paul Tillich
41. Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. — Thomas Wolfe
42. “Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.”
43. I’m not much but I’m all I have. — Philip K. Dick
44. “Those who fly solo have the strongest wings.”
45. All great and precious things are lonely. — John Steinbeck
46. “I enjoy being alone, my soul is at peace in the silence.”
47. Being alone has a power that very few people can handle. — Steven Aitchison
48. “If you want to be strong, learn to enjoy being alone.”
49. The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
50. “Happiness is being alone with your own thoughts.”
51. What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. — Kurt Vonnegut
52. Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. — Charlie Chaplin
Inspirational Quotes On Being Alone
Sometimes being alone isn’t a bad thing. In fact, it’s completely normal to like being alone. It allows you to connect with yourself and learn and grow — and there are plenty of great ways to spend time alone at home. These quotes are about channeling your loneliness into something productive and meaningful. Being alone isn’t the same thing as being lonely!
53. If you make friends with yourself, you’ll never be alone. ― Maxwell Maltz
54. Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.— Osho
55. 1 love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Henry David Thoreau
56. Without great solitude no serious work is possible. — Pablo Picasso
57. In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. — Laurence Sterne
58. I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being. — Hafez-e Shirazi
59. The sun is alone too, but it still shines.— uncredited
60. When I get lonely these days, I think: So Be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. — Elizabeth Gilbert
61. I restore myself when I’m alone. — Marilyn Monroe
62. Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness. — Mandy Hale
63. There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you! ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
64. Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others. — Charlotte Eriksson
65. Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
66. The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. — Henrick Ibsen
67. People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn’t realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that. ― S.H. Kolee
68. You only grow when you are alone. — Paul Newman
69. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. — Albert Einstein
70. Sitting alone, sleeping alone, acting alone, let the diligent one enjoy the forest, taming the self alone. — Buddha
71. 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
72. The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne
73. Ultimately, what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together. — John Greene
74. My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude. — Warsan Shire
75. What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. — Ellen Burstyn
76. Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. — Henry Rollins
77. Solitude is independence. — Herman Hesse
78. By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.— George Herbert
In Conclusion
As you can see, there is no shortage of thoughts, musings, and writing about the experience of loneliness. I hope these quotes will remind you that although you feel lonely, you aren’t alone.
