Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right .~Charles Bukowski
Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition. ~Pauline Kael
One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one's satisfaction. ~Andrea Seigel
A man can be himself alone so long as he is alone … if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be. ~Katharine Hepburn
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. ~Honore de Balzac
If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company. ~Jean-Paul Sartre
I am never less alone than when alone.~Cicero
Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone. ~Paul Tillich
Solitude matters, and for some people, it is the air that they breathe. ~Susan Cain
The faint whisper of rain and running water was still there and it had the same tender note of solitude and perfection. ~Tove Jansson
Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead. ~David Samuels
It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world. ~Keanu Reeves
Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners. ~Dean Cavanagh
Alone is what I have. Alone protects me. ~Sherlock
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all. ~Rollo May
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom. ~Laurence Sterne
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. ~Albert Einstein
The best thinking has been done in solitude. ~Thomas A. Edison
Most of the time I played by myself. Even then I was a loner, and I have stayed a loner all my life. It can make a man seem a little distant or even aloof - but it has helped pull me through some tight spots and hard times. ~Roy Wilkins
A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best buddies. ~Michael Shannon
Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement. ~Walter Schloss
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ~Aldous Huxley
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. ~Wayne W. Dyer
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. ~Marcel Proust
I like silence; I’m a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. ~Karen Armstrong
Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. ~Deepak Chopra
The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all. ~Anneli Rufus
Every kind of creative work demands solitude, and being alone, constructively alone, is a prerequisite for every phase of the creative process. ~Barbara Powell
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. ~Anthony Burgess
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born. ~Nikola Tesla
I’d never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I’d grown used to it. ~Sebastian Faulks
Without great solitude no serious work is possible. ~Pablo Picasso
It is impossible to ostracize a lone wolf. ~Joseph Annaruma
I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner. ~Arthur Ashe
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. ~John Stuart Blackie
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. ~Franz Kafka
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society. ~William Manchester
Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world. ~Philip O Ceallaigh
I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague there was no sense talking about it. ~Hunter S Thompson
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt in solitude, where we are least alone. ~Lord Byron
Seclusion is the price of greatness. ~Paramahansa Yogananda
Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude. ~Mary Shelley
Most of the time I played by myself. Even then I was a loner, and I have stayed a loner all my life. It can make a man seem a little distant or aloof but it has helped pull me through some tight spots and hard times. ~Roy Wilkins
All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. ~Blaise Pascal
The best things have always come from the loneliest people. ~Adam Gnade
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. ~James Russell Lowell
Isolation is a way to know ourselves. ~Franz Kafka
We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use. ~Anita Roddick
