The power of enjoying your own company can’t be underestimated. Yet it is.
We search for happiness and validation in others. We don’t feel successful until someone else tells us we are. And we fear spending time alone because we’re scared of our own thoughts and emotions.
But if you can’t enjoy your own company, then what can you enjoy? Isn’t being by yourself the foundation of your life?
You’ll die alone someday, so start living with yourself and enjoying it too! People will come and go, but you’ll always have yourself to fall back on.
These enjoy your own company quotes will teach you the value of loving and being comfortable with who you are.
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77 Enjoy Your Own Company Quotes
1. “When you need help, who can help you the most? It is you and yourself.” Debasish Mridha
2. “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.” Jodi Picoult
3. “There is no other company in the world I’ve found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.” Richelle E. Goodrich
4. “My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.” Patricia Highsmith
5. “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” Arthur Schopenhauer
6. “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.” Criss Jami
7. “How much better is silence; the coffee cup the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here forever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.” Unknown
8. “It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” Rumi
9. “Do things that you like because if you are not doing what you like then you are not enjoying your life.” Unknown
10. ”A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.” Bertrand Russell
11. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” Michel de Montaigne
12. “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” Hunter S. Thompson
13. “The meaning of enjoying your own company is to be able to feel at peace with the idea of being alone, spending time with yourself, and enjoying the little moments even if there’s no one around to share the excitement with.” Rachel Jo
14. “Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.” Rollo May
15. “Some walks you have to take alone.” Suzanne Collins
16. “We live as we dream–alone” Joseph Conrad
17. “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” Henry David Thoreau
18. “Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.” Alan Bradley
19. “Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.” Albert Einstein
20. “I want to be alone… with someone else who wants to be alone.” Dimitri Zaik
21. “Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.” Mandy Hale
22. “What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” Ellen Burstyn
23. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Blaise Pascal
24. “I live in my own little world. But it’s ok. They know me here.” Lauren Myracle
25. “Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.” A. R. Rahman
26. “Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.” Paulo Coelho
27. “If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.” Mandy Hale
28. “I suppose I should get used to being alone too. Not in the world, but in here. In my heart.” Victoria Aveyard
29. “People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.” Karl Lagerfeld
30. “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
31. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
32. “Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.” Charlotte Eriksson
33. “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” Wayne W. Dyer
34. “I prefer to be left alone with my books.” Alison Weir
35. In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” Rollo May
36. “We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn’t understand.” Anneli Rufus
37. “Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.” Jenn Granneman
38. “You don’t have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.” Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
39. “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
40. “I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.” Laurie Helgoe
41. “Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.” Mandy Hale
42. “I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable.” Allen Shawn
43. “Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.” Harold Bloom
44. “If you make friends with yourself, you’ll never be alone.” Maxwell Maltz
45. “I choose solitude over cold kisses. If it isn’t love, it is poison.” Anita Krizzan
46. “If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” Jean-Paul Sartre
47. “Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.” Kazuo Ishiguro
48. “If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.” George Gordon Byron
49. “But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” Bell Hooks
50. “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” Steve Maraboli
51. “When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.” Fiona Apple
52. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” Maya Angelou
53. “Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.” Marty Rubin
54. “If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” Michael Bassey Johnson
55. “You are who you are when nobody’s watching.” Stephen Fry
56. “Once you know how to take care of yourself, company becomes an option and not a necessity.” Keanu Reeves
57. “I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.” Marilynne Robinson
58. “Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.” Prixie
59. “The things we experience for ourselves when we are alone are much stronger and much fresher.” Eugène Delacroix
60. “Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unnecessary as when you were alone.” Michael Bassey Johnson
61. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” Mandy Hale
62. “I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.” Jonathan Harnisch
63. “Your life will get better when you realize it’s better to be alone than to chase people who don’t really care about you.” Thema Davis
64. “When you feel like an outsider – for whatever reason – you spend a lot of time alone.” Meg Cabot
65. “Truth is, I’m generally happiest when it’s just me. It’s okay to be madly in love with yourself.” Richelle E. Goodrich
66. “We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It’s really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.” Amanda Seyfried
67. “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” Albert Einstein
68. “The sun is alone too. And he’s still shining.” Anonymous
69. “Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one’s self. It is not about the absence of other people—it is about being fully present to ourselves, whether or not we are with others.” Parker Palmer
70. “There’s a lot of wonderful time to be spent discovering yourself. Fill yourself up with love. Become a whole being on your own. Go on adventures, wander around the city at night, sit in a coffee shop on your own, write on bathroom stalls, leave notes in library books, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot. Live for yourself and be happy on your own.” Emery Allen
71. “Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless, and lonely can be healing if you let it.” Tanya Davis
72. “If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.” Paulo Coelho
73. “When you walk alone, eat alone, take trains and planes alone, you just learn to believe that the kindness of strangers is sometimes more valuable than the insecurity of long-lasting relationships.” Iona C. Casapu
74. “You hold wildflowers and blue, deep woodlands within you. You breathe substance, growth, and darkness: You are nature in its wildest form. Do not be afraid to explore your own wildness and come home to the sonnet of your soul. This is your calling, your passion, your purpose. The only true voice you will ever hear clearly.” Niti Majethia
75. “Only a fraction of sane people enjoy their own company. The rest endure it.” Mokokoma Mokhonoana
76. “It is hard to love yourself if you never spend time with yourself. ‘Alone Time’ is Necessary.” Izey Victoria Odiase
77. “In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.” Flannery O’Connor
Final Thoughts
I enjoyed curating these quotes because self-love is my favorite topic.
As an introvert and somebody who has been single by choice for a (very) long time, I’m always looked at strangely. People think there is something wrong with me because I love to stay in on weekend nights and cut calls quickly because I’d rather talk to myself – but this is who I am – somebody who loves being in solitude.
And while this has been the case since my childhood, I’m enjoying it even more now because I’m proud of myself.
I hope you also loved reading this post as much as I did finding these quotes – may you always feel comfortable in your own company.
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