Sayings about Being Alone
Better being alone than in bad company. ~ French Proverb
He who has travelled alone can tell what he likes. ~ Rwandan Proverbs
Marriage teaches you to live alone. ~ French Proverbs
Curse your wife at evening, sleep alone at night. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Man can’t live in this world alone. ~ United States Proverbs
Leave well alone. ~ Traditional Proverbs
Who speaks alone is always right. ~ Zanzibar Proverbs
It is unpleasant to go alone, even to be drowned. ~ Russian Proverbs
A party of one alone is not a party. ~ French Proverb
One would not be alone even in Paradise. ~ Italian Proverbs
It may be quieter to sleep alone, but not warmer. ~ Italian Proverb
Better be quarrelling than lonesome. ~ Irish Proverbs
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. ~ English Proverbs
Pretend to be dead and the bull will leave you alone. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
Try to be in good company, even when you are alone. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
Play alone and you’re bound to win. ~ Arabian Proverbs
He who walks alone shall surely arrive first. ~ Arabian Proverb
Even in paradise it is no fun to be alone. ~ Romanian Proverb
One who runs alone cannot be outrun by another. ~ Ethiopian Proverbs
He who eats alone is Satan’s brother. ~ Iranian Proverbs
He who eats alone chokes alone. ~ Arabian Proverb
Two is good, one alone cannot wash his back. ~ African Proverb
One man alone is prey to the wolf. ~ French Proverb
Quotations on Being Alone
All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone. ~ James A. Froude
It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone. ~ James Alan Gardner
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. ~ Thomas Jefferson
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. ~ Sir Walter Scott
The strong man is strongest when alone. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
We walk alone in the world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself. ~ William Blake
To be adult is to be alone. ~ Jean Rostand
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has. ~ Alan Ashley-Pitt
The right to be alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. ~ Louis D. Brandeis
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~ Helen Keller
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe. ~ Claude Levi-Strauss
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. ~ Maxwell Maltz
Do not rely completely on any other human being … we meet all of life’s greatest tests alone. ~ Agnes MacPhail
It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night. ~ William Sutton
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. ~ Elbert Hubbard
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. ~ Janis Joplin
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? ~ Charles A. Lindbergh
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ~ Baltasar Gracian
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. ~ William O. Douglas
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. ~ Orson Welles
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ Helen Keller
To live alone is the fate of all great souls. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The reason old souls enjoy spending time alone is because they never really are. ~ Author unknown
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. ~ Henrik Ibsen
We are rarely proud when we are alone. ~ Voltaire
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far. ~ Marilyn Monroe
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man — the one he used to be. ~ Cesare Pavese
I restore myself when I’m alone. ~ Marilyn Monroe
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. ~ John Lennon
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ~ Pearl S. Buck
I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.~ R.A.Torry
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too. ~ Suzanne Moarny
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~ Pearl Buck
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 LeShan
We’re all in this alone. ~ Lily Tomlin
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. ~George Herbert
It’s a terrible thing to be alone — yes it is — it is — but don’t lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath — as terrible as you like — but a mask. ~ Katherine Mansfield
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. ~ Sir Philip Sidney
It is better to be alone than in bad company. ~ George Washington
I was never less alone than when by myself. ~ Edward Gibbon
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. ~ Martin Luther
I don’t want to be alone; I want to be left alone. ~ Audrey Hepburn
