Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.