Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Copy Quote View & ShareInside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
Copy Quote View & ShareTo go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Copy Quote View & ShareWho knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
Copy Quote View & ShareHe that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Copy Quote View & ShareAlone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Copy Quote View & ShareI finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
Copy Quote View & ShareStill and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.
Copy Quote View & ShareSolitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Copy Quote View & ShareI've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
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