For many people, aloneness is a negative state of being. Society perceives aloneness as if being by one’s self is not volitional, or a choice we make, but rather an imposed state where a person is not socially engaged in the way that is somehow expected. Even further, sometimes it may even imply that there is something actually wrong or defective with a person who remains alone.
Therefore for most people learning to be alone may be initially scared. However, once mastered, it serves as the cornerstone for your development and growth as a human being. There’s so much to be gained from learning to rely upon — and more importantly, to trust — your own inner voice as the best source for your own guidance. Being alone allows us to drop our “social guard,” thus giving us the freedom to be introspective, to think for ourselves.
In this article, we have collected 50 solitude quotes about the power of aloneness. We hope that these wise solitude quotes will inspire you to learn and practice aloneness for your inner growth and personal development!
Here they are 50 solitude quotes to inspire your introspection and self-awareness!
50 Solitude Quotes
#1
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” – Wayne W. Dyer
#2
“When you don’t need a person at all, when you are totally sufficient unto yourself when you can be alone and tremendously happy and ecstatic, then love is possible. But then, too, you cannot be certain whether the other’s love is real or not – you can be certain about only one thing: whether your love is real. How can you be certain about the other? But then there is no need. This continuous anxiety about whether the other’s love is real or not simply shows one thing: that your love is not real. Otherwise, who bothers? Why be worried about it? Enjoy it while it lasts, be together while you can be together! It is a fiction, but you need fiction.” – Osho
#3
“Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.” ― Marty Rubin
#4
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.” ― Mandy Hale
#5
“And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
#6
“In many cultures, solitude is recognized as an opportunity to journey inward; in our culture, spending time alone is often considered unhealthy because we tend to believe that meaning in life is found only through relationship with other people. But to be fully human, we need relationship not only with other people but with the nonhuman world, with our own inner depths – and with Something Greater. For me, that nonmaterial Presence is mysterious and sacred. It can be experienced, but not defined. And I’ve learned that in coming into a deeper relationship with my self, I develop the capacity to connect more deeply with others.” – Robert Kull
#7
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” – Albert Einstein
#8
“Aloneness is a gift. A beautiful gift to the human soul. True and consistent satisfaction comes from the bond you form with yourself. Nobody else is constant.” ― Mohadesa Najumi
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#9
“Unless meditation is achieved, love remains a misery. Once you have learned how to live alone, once you have learned how to enjoy your simple existence, for no reason at all, then there is a possibility of solving the second, more complicated problem of two persons being together. Only two meditators can live in love – and then love will not be a koan. But then it will not be a relationship, either, in the sense that you understand it. It will be simply a state of love, not a state of relationship.” – Osho
#10
“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.” ― Amit Ray
#11
“Whenever you feel sad, sit by the side of a tree, by the side of the river, by the side of a rock, and just relax into your sadness without any fear. The more you relax, the more you will become acquainted with the beauties of sadness. Then sadness will start changing its form; it will become a silent joy, uncaused by anybody outside you. That will not be shallow happiness, which can be taken away very easily. And getting deeper into your aloneness, one day you will find not only joy – joy is only midway. Happiness is very superficial, depends on others; joy is in the middles, does not depend on anyone. But going deeper you will come to the state of bliss – that’s what I call enlightenment.” – Osho
#12
“An experienced loner does not fall for the same trick twice.” ― Wataru Watari
#13
“… all humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can man learn to know himself, learn to handle his own eternity of aloneness. And love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.” ― Han Suyin
#14
“Aloneness seems to be the heart of discipline […] You cannot develop yourself properly unless you give up your need for companionship. Once you give up your search for companionship, you can make friends with your loneliness. At that point, you become a genuine practitioner.” ― Chögyam Trungpa
#15
“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. 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
#16
“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.” ― Roman Payne
#17
“A friendship where you’re always trying to be considerate of the other person, always worrying about what they think, always responding to every single text, always seeking their approval and then finally connecting with them, isn’t friendship at all.” ― Wataru Watari
#18
“It is only the mind which does not belong that can be alone. And aloneness is not something to be cultivated. You see this? When you see all this, you are out, and no governor or president is going to invite you to dinner. Out of that aloneness there is humility. It is this aloneness that knows love—not power. The ambitious man, religious or ordinary, will never know what love is. So, if one sees all this, then one has this quality of total living and therefore total action. This comes through self-knowledge.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti
#19
“Man is neither totally an individual being, nor totally a social animal. He needs aloneness just as much as he needs togetherness. He needs cleanings just as much as he adds information, makes new connections, new people. We call that mind’s cleanliness, meditation.” ― Saroj Aryal
#20
“There comes a time or two in life when you should face isolation. No, you have to. Constantly being accompanied, having someone by your side always and forever — that is far more abnormal and creepy. I’m positive you can only learn and feel certain things when you’re alone. If there are lessons to gain from having friends, then so also are there lessons from not having friends. These two things are two sides of the same coin and should be treated as equally valuable.” ― Wataru Watari
#21
“Love is its own reward. We do not have to worry about what other people think about us. We can never feel alone or isolated when we understand that it is impossible for love to leave our side. Love is all around us.” ― Donna Goddard
#22
“Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.” ― Robert Tew
#23
“Never be afraid to spend time in your own company getting to know yourself better. That’s where true happiness is found.”
#24
“Self-examination requires time alone spent in thoughtful study. We naturally fear aloneness, which reluctance can stifle attaining self-knowledge. In her 1942 memoir titled ‘West with the Night’, Beryl Marham spoke eloquently why we must overcome our fear of aloneness and conduct a search for our inner authenticity. “You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make the alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents – each man to see what the other looked like.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster
#25
“Solitude is the richness of self.” – May Sarton
#26
“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.” – Deepak Chopra
#27
“In solitude is healing. Speak to your soul. Listen to your heart. Sometimes in the absence of noise, we find the answers.” – Dodinsky
#28
“In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.” – Laurence Sterne
#29
“Loneliness is a journey we have to walk alone. Our inner disconnection cannot be resolved by external connections.”
― Yong Kang Chan
#30
“Solitude is dangerous. It’s addicting. Once you see how peaceful it is, you don’t want to deal with people.”
#31
“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
#32
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps the perfect sweetness and independence of solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33
“Solitude is creativity’s best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.” – Naomi Judd
#34
“An introvert’s desire for solitude is more than just a preference. It is crucial to our health and happiness.” – Michaela Chung
#35
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.” – Albert Einstein
#36
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” – Aristotle
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#37
“Those who fly solo have the strongest wings.”
#38
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.” – Thomas A. Edison
#39
“Solitude is independence. I’m not anti-social. I’m pro-solitude.” – Beth Buelow
#40
“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your own presence rather than of the absence of others. Becuase solitude is an achievement.” – Alice Koller
#41
“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” ― Mandy Hale
#42
“Loneliness is the poverty of self. Solitude is the richness of self.” – May Sarton
#43
“A man can be himself 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
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#44
“The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.” – Robert Anton Wilson
#45
“Spend some time alone every day.” – Dalai Lama
#46
“There’s a magic to being alone.” – Skip Prichard
#47
“It is better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington
#48
“Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49
“People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth.” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana
#50
“If you make friends with yourself, you’ll never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz
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