891 – “It’s better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.”

–anonymous

872 – “I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

–Olivia Wilde

851 – “The worst thing in life is not to end up all alone. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.”

–Robin Williams [Attributed]

801 – “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”

–Ted Arroway (Played by David Morse) in the 1997 film Contact

688 – “The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been.”

–Francis Phillip Wernig [See Source Notes]

575 – “I really know how to take care of myself, how to be alone, how to deal with stress. If I hadn’t been through that time, I wouldn’t have got there. I never knew I had limits. You make good friends and you make bad friends, and you have to figure it all out. You realize you can’t do everything. I really did think I could do it all …. You can’t do by the way. You do have to take breaks.”

–Emma Watson

507 – “Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

–Arthur C Clarke [See Source Notes about Attribution]

312 – “People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.”

–Kim Culbertson [attributed]

282 – “Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.”

–Mandy Hale

272 – “We read to know that we are not alone.”

–C S Lewis (played by Anthony Hopkins) in William Nicholson’s Shadowlands (1993)