30 Being Alone Quotes: Powerful Phrases to Find Strength in Solitude

1. "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." – Henry David Thoreau

2. "In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone." – Rollo May

3. "The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil." – Thomas A. Edison

4. "Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead." – Katrina Kenison

5. "I restore myself when I'm alone." – Marilyn Monroe

6. "Alone time is when I discover all the powerful dreams hiding within me." - Robin Sharma

7. "In solitude, where we are least alone." – Lord Byron

8. "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9. "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." – Michel de Montaigne

10. "I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person." – Oscar Wilde

11. "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

12. "If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct." – Leonardo da Vinci

13. "Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own." – Oprah Winfrey

14. "When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death – ourselves." – Eda J. LeShan

15. "In solitude, we discover that what we need most isn't answers, but the ability to question and challenge our own assumptions." – Mark Nepo

16. "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity." - Albert Einstein

17. "Being alone has a power very few can handle." - Steven Aitchison

18. "Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself." - Unknown

19. "To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude." - Jeanne Moreau

20. "All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." - Blaise Pascal

21. "We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. Spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order." – Susan L. Taylor

22. "The quieter you become, the more you can hear." – Ram Dass

23. "The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness." – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

24. "Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have." – Robert Holden

25. "Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace." – Nikki Rowe

26. "Being alone is not the absence of company, it's the moment we face ourselves and find peace within." - Anonymous

27. "Alone time is when I turn my mind off and let my heart breathe." - Anonymous

28. "Within yourself is a stillness, a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself." - Hermann Hesse

29. "Peace can be found in no one but ourselves and in our solitude." - Hermann Hesse

30. "In the inner solitude of the heart, we find peace and profound clarity." - Anonymous