We are rarely proud when we are alone.
The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
Being alone is very difficult.
I’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.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
I’m single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that’s me.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
If 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.
It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.
I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Remember we’re all in this alone.
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
You can’t fake it when you’re alone with God, you know.
I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
