40 Best Alone Time Quotes for Reflection and Peace
Spending time alone can be powerful, so we have put together a list of the best alone time quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for short sayings about being alone and embracing solitude, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short Alone Time Quotes
“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” — Martin Buber
“Silence is a source of great strength.” — Pablo Picasso
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up.” — Lao Tzu
“A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.” — Pearl S. Buck
“Sometimes, you need to step away just to see who will follow.” — Rumi
“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Solitude is the strength of being alone, which is very different from loneliness.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous.” — Thomas Mann
“Sometimes, you need to be alone with your thoughts to understand what you truly feel.” — Anonymous
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou
“Solitude is independence.” — Hermann Hesse
“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.” — Paulo Coelho
“Sometimes I feel like I’m alone in a world full of people.” — Anonymous
“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Sometimes you have to stand alone just to make sure you still can.” — Marilyn Monroe
“There is nothing more lonely or terrifying than feeling unheard.” — Oprah Winfrey
“No one ever discovers the depths of their own loneliness until love leaves them.” — Leah Raeder
“Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.” — Guillermo Maldonado
“My loneliness is not by chance, it is a choice I made to heal myself.” — Anonymous
“It’s strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.” — Albert Einstein
“Be so fulfilled with yourself, that even when you are alone, you feel in good company.” — Irini Zoica
“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.” — Paulo Coelho
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” — May Sarton
“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
“I restore myself when I’m alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It 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
“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.” — Gabriel García Márquez
“Knowing how to belong to yourself is an art in a world where everyone is finding their home in others.” — Renuka Gavrani
“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.” — Audrey Hepburn
“Solitude is the soul’s holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.” — Katrina Kenison
“Live alone in your mind — that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.” — Swami Vivekananda
“The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.” — Michel de Montaigne
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” — Douglass Coupland
“Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.” — Oprah Winfrey
“If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.” — Paul Cezanne
“I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Alone, but never lonely — there’s a big difference.” — Anonymous
“In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.” — Anonymous
“Solitude isn’t empty; it’s full of possibilities.” — Anonymous
“The power of being alone is learning that you are enough.” — Anonymous
