23 Beautiful Quotes To Help You Love Being Alone

“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, facebook.com

“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…”

— D.H. Lawrence, amazon.com

“Remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.”

— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com

“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, theguardian.com

“Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.”

— Carl Gustav Jung, amazon.com

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

“I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.”

— Jean Rhys, amazon.com

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“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., amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way out.”

— Stephen Hawking, nytimes.com

“she is learning to take tenderness from the atmosphere.”

— Susan Griffin, narrativemagazine.com

“Very easy to romanticize the present when you perceive everything as already a memory.”

— Francisco Espinoza, twitter.com

“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, thoughtcatalog.com

“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 l…”

— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“There are fields inside me, there are flowers growing and rivers flowing to oceans with no end.”

— Cold Cave, open.spotify.com

“Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”

— Dr. Seuss, amazon.com

“The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.”

— Douglas Coupland, brainyquote.com

“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, amazon.com

“Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, lulu.com