“Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.”
Solitude is not the same as loneliness, though they often get confused. This collection explores both — the ache of isolation and the quiet power of being comfortable in your own company. Some of these quotes will make you want to reach out to someone; others will make you want to sit with yourself a while longer.
“I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.”
“Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.”
“Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.”
“Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.”
“In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.”
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
“Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.”
“I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.”
“Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.”
“I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.”
“I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.”
“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.”
“The doer alone learneth.”
“I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.”
“Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.”
“Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.”