Whitney Houston Quotes

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of 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.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

Solitude is un-American.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Solitude is independence.

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 like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

Being alone is very difficult.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.