Hannah Arendt Quotes

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

Solitude is separate experience.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.

There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.

We must relearn to be alone.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

We live as we dream - alone.

She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the night went on, and clarinet and coyote call mingled beyond the lantern light, the magic of their own powder-blue jackets and orchids seemed to fade, and it came to them in small sensations that they were more alone than she was.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

I don’t want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

Eventually, we all end up alone.

I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.