Alone Quotes: Embracing Solitude and Finding Inner Strength
The Power of Solitude
Alone time is a precious gift that allows us to reconnect with ourselves, find solace in our own company, and discover the depths of our inner world. It is during these moments of solitude that we can reflect, recharge, and cultivate a sense of inner peace. In this article, we delve into the beauty of being alone and present a collection of insightful quotes that celebrate the strength and wisdom found in solitude.
Being alone does not mean being lonely. It is an opportunity to tune out the noise of the world, listen to our own thoughts, and gain a deeper understanding of who we are. It is a time for self-reflection, introspection, and personal growth. Embracing solitude allows us to build a strong foundation within ourselves and develop a sense of self-reliance.
Words of Wisdom: Quotes to Embrace Solitude
Throughout history, philosophers, writers, and thinkers have contemplated the nature of solitude and its profound impact on our lives. Their quotes capture the essence of being alone, celebrating its beauty, and highlighting the strength that can be found within solitude. Below, we present a collection of insightful quotes that will inspire you to embrace your alone time and find solace in your own company.
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‘There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.’ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
I don’t like being alone.
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
Remember we’re all in this alone.
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Work alone is noble.
Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly alone in the house with her because my two older brothers were away at college. I was the man of the house, and she was the grieving woman.
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
We seek in Central America not peace alone, not peace to be followed someday by political progress, but peace and democracy, together, indivisible, an end to the shedding of human blood, which is inseparable from an end to the suppression of human rights.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one ‘silver bullet’ that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.
The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
It’s a terrible thing to be alone – yes it is – it is – but don’t lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath – as terrible as you like – but a mask.
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
I’ve always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn’t just about doing cardio, it’s also when I can get my ‘me time’ to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.
I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is something fragmented: there is so much to it; the truth is varied and scattered across the world.
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
For an adult, eating alone at McDonald’s is admitting a kind of defeat.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.
My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the quantum theory deals; it does not restrict, for example, the exactness of a position measurement alone or a velocity measurement alone.
Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.
Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can’t see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.
I don’t know if this is because I’m a bit too old, but it is true that I’m getting insensible about romance recently. I’m very used to being alone now, and I don’t think that’s not half bad.
It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I’m silent. If I’m not talking, leave me alone.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Love alone could waken love.
It’s not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn’t like you, or you might need to find new friends. It’s not easy, and I don’t like this kind of thing. It’s not easy, so you want to protect the players who are alone.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
I’m fiercely independent, but I’m also terrified of being alone.
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations… Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.
I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it’s lonely work. You die, you die alone. It’s you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.
I know that when I’m standing alone below a thousand-foot wall, looking up and considering a climb, my sponsors are the furthest thing from my mind. If I’m going to take risks, they are going to be for myself – not for any company.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
And remember don’t high post when you’re far from home, and high posting when you’re all alone.
Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It’s hard enough to do the dishes when you’re feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
I might have sung party numbers, but I love to party alone.
Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.
I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone – the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace; think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.
I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to have no connection with me. Perhaps because the name is quite common, it never seems to fit me, or fit me alone. Nevertheless, when I see the name, I always feel a peculiar sense of shame.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you’re not alone and that’s what’s so comforting about books.
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.
Better be alone than in bad company.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can’t find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
You can certainly make the case that we’re devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
When I’m alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
I think a large part of being human centers on the state of being alone, and we try to mitigate that in so many ways.
The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, ‘Hmm, I can do that.’ But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.
Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I’m looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don’t have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they’re not monsters.
Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
I was never less alone than when by myself.
You won’t find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don’t hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
On tour, it’s either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. You’re just looking for any proof that you’re not completely alone.
We have many opportunities in mining: we have more than 6% of world reserves of uranium. We have many unutilised assets. We have four million square metres in Mecca alone of unutilised state-owned lands.
I can’t really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn’t say I’m sceptical because that word implies the truth is out there when there is no truth out there.
When you’re successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you’re down and out, you’re all alone. That’s why it’s important to be a good person. Because whether you’re a successful cricketer or not can always change, but the respect you earn by being the person you are stays with you.
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
I need specifically love, affection, people to touch me all the time. Because otherwise, I don’t really – I don’t cope very well. On ‘Morgan,’ everything is shot from the other side of the glass, so I was alone in a soundproof room watching everybody but being completely separate from whatever was going on.
Having your father to help you to get back up is good, but you need to get up by yourself and walk alone. Life goes on.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I’m living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
The surest way to be alone is to get married.
The spoken word is man’s physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.
I was born alone, I’m gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I’m my own person, and no two people are the same.
If you’re very introverted, you prefer to spend much of your time alone, and when you do connect, you’d rather get together with one or two close friends than face a crowd.
One can go to war alone, but you can’t build peace alone.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
I don’t want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you’re doing it with.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.
I am bipolar, and I am proud. And that is why I wanted to write a book. To shine a light on mental illness, to be vulnerable about the days I let it take control and paid dearly for it, and to tell anyone fighting a similar battle: You are not alone. You are not broken.
There are times you break up with a loved one, a friend, or whatever. You feel alone. It’s a very easy feeling to understand – the feeling of loss, heartache, and pain.
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want – I go to the bathroom.
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
I’m not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I’m not a rock star. I’m not in it for the fame, I’m in it because I like to play.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
I’m learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I’m doing.
I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them – the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.
Sometimes getting something off your chest to someone else is an important step in coping – so you know that you’re not alone, you’re not failing, and that it is perfectly normal to feel overwhelmed or sad at times. Everybody does.
Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.
Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Inside me, ‘Dragon Ball’ became a thing of the past, but later, I got upset at the live-action film, revised the script for the anime film, and complained about the quality of the TV anime. I guess, at some point, it became a work that I like so much that I can’t leave it alone.
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
People think being alone is a luxury, but it’s crucial: Whatever you’re not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.
I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.
If I were to have seen more people that looked like me – because I’m Palestinian and Lebanese – and talked like me and acted like me, I probably would have had a lot more hope knowing that I wasn’t alone. I really hope that this show, ‘Champions,’ gives that to people.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
Finds progress, man’s distinctive mark alone, Not God’s, and not the beast’s; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it, putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before.
Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
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.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you’re going through to realize that you’re not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it’s not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.
When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook’s strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.
When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.
The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.
If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
I’m usually alone or asleep, at home.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Don’t recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don’t recommend doing it alone.
I would say, ‘I’m alone, but I’m not lonely.’ But I was just kidding myself.
My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they’re not alone in going through the things that they go through.
I can’t stand to watch anything that I’m in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I’m in. It’s abusive.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
The best part about being with a group is that you don’t have to do everything alone. You’re with your friends.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
I learned how not to be alone in the playground.
I’m done with men… I’m going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don’t think I’m made for marriage.
In real life, I am a very sensitive person as l lived alone in Chennai for 15 years without my family. I always remember that phase of my life.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.
No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don’t think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one’s coffee and fill one’s pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.
I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t ultimately start judging you and your choices.
You can’t run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.
We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won’t even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court.
I’m a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.
When I’m not working, I like to do things alone, just to take a breath.
When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil’s Thumb alone. It was incredibly dangerous, and I did it because I thought that if I did something that hard and pulled it off, my life was gonna be transformed. And of course, nothing happened. But I get the search for purpose.
I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.
People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It’s only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
Time and space – time to be alone, space to move about – these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.
I like to say I sit alone in my room, and I fight the language. I am wildly obsessive. I can’t let something go if I think it’s wrong.
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.
Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
I’m definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there’s some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.
The manager is by himself. He can’t mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it’s off the better.
All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
If you can eat five fruits and vegetables a day, that alone can totally change your diet.
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am learning that if you let it go, you feel better for it. Don’t keep it all bottled up inside; don’t take it all on alone.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
We’re all alone in this world.
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both.
I’m a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He’s a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.
If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That’s tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
I finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
Whoever wants to know something about me – as an artist which alone is significant – they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.
I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I’m all alone where I’m not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I’m dead in the water.
Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
I said, ‘I’m a rock star. I can’t preach in nobody’s church. Are you crazy?’ Let alone buy one. Oh, I wound up buying one.
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
I get advice, but the final decision about my life is one I always take alone.
It’s only when you’re alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man’s guru.
No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless. Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.
No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom… No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.
My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.
Alone I’m nothing.
I eat with my hands when I am home alone!
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
It wasn’t so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go.
Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family’s asleep and I’m alone, I think about the next day’s writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn’t think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the ‘global mind’ without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I’m an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
You only grow when you are alone.
Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.
I hate being alone. That’s why I like being with my friends: we’ve got energy; we’re social as hell.
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
It’s not easy living alone but I’ve done it before.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.
Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
Loneliness is, like, when you wish someone else was there, and solitude is when you enjoy being alone. I don’t always wanna be alone, but I definitely like pockets of solitude to recharge and come back to myself. I think that’s so important for everyone.
I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.
It’s always nice to be thought of and asked to do anything, let alone something different.
None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone’s help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
I’m throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don’t want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I’ve finally found somebody who’s up to the task of being my wife, because I’m very high maintenance.
For people who are really talented, what you don’t say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
I’m not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.
We want our president to be a president and not threaten to shut down the government over a wall. To change the oppression that happens in this country, it has no place in the world, let alone America.
Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.
I really like oysters, and I won’t eat them alone. They’re just a weird thing to eat by yourself.
I was 24 when I was embroiled in a high-profile lawsuit. This was 2014, long before, en masse and on social media, we said #MeToo and #TimesUp. At the time, I felt completely alone. Visceral, hateful online harassment from strangers left me paranoid and anxious for years afterward.
Artists walk alone.
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
I’m very happy alone.
I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I’m either going to go absolutely nuts, or I’m going to find something to put that energy into.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Ronald Reagan wasn’t qualified to be governor, let alone president.
I think there is only one way to write fiction – alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
When I work alone, and I’m in my studio, and I’m playing a lot of the stuff myself, I think the style of it becomes something a little different.
You can’t play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
I really don’t want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
I feel alone and safe in public.
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I’m told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
I don’t like to work with assistants. I’m already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.
It is impossible for Bangladesh alone to take action against the rising sea level, as it has been a cumulative effect of global emission in which Bangladesh does not have any role. It is the responsibility of global community to address this issue as urgently as possible.
Glasgow’s not a media center. When you’re there, when you’re hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.
Talent alone doesn’t matter in this industry, and everyone knows this. If someone says, ‘Good films are done’, ‘Talent always survives’, there are other factors, too, which are far more important.
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
People eat duck and you think, well, we’ve got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
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.
Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
You know you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
It is together that we will be able to save our biodiversity. This is a principle of effectiveness. But it is also a principle of humility; none of us can act alone.
I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. ‘Hey, man, what are you playing?’ ‘Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I’m performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!’
I’m really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
Being alone is very difficult.
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
Very few people are original. There’s very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.
In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‘should’ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‘If I do this, what will happen?’ alone.
Change alone is unchanging.
The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.
In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.
I can’t play horror games anymore, let alone in VR.
You never quite know what’s going to strike your imagination, or something that won’t going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm… that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the kids to bed and have an hour and a half in the evening for myself.
You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
You alone are enough.
It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
It was a very scary place to be. I don’t think any mother or father would like to have their five year old wandering alone in the slums and train stations of Calcutta.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.
Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.
One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there’s no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
It is very easy to love alone.
We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It’s important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people’s love even when they’re not there in front of you.
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.
No man is an island. No man stands alone.
Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They’ll stay faithful as long as it’s safe and doesn’t involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
You can’t fake it when you’re alone with God, you know.
It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Sometimes I get lonely, but it’s nice to be alone.
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source.
Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Not drunk is he who from the floor – Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Zidane transmits a very clear idea to the players. He doesn’t need to give a 20 minute motivational talk, he doesn’t need it. With his presence alone, he achieves what he wants – his personality is synonymous with success.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.
It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
I want people to know that blood tests alone won’t always detect thyroid disease. My blood panels were normal. I think a lot more people have this disease than are diagnosed.
The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that’s beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.
I’ve lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.
‘Stand By You’ is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren’t alone.
One person alone can’t do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.
She can’t even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.
Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
The English Bible – a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.
The people who are bullying you, they’re insecure about who they are, and that’s why they’re bullying you. It never has to do with the person they’re bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they’re not alone.
Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.
I’ve been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don’t have much interest in you. I’m still married, still working, still happy.
I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.
If hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.
I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.
So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that’s painful but familiar because they’re comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something’s not good for them and to turn around and be alone.
I was as alone as a person can be. I could not turn to a friend, for nobody wished to befriend me. I was toxic, and everyone knew it. To be near me was to be near hardship. Wise people stayed far away. I was alone, atop a mountain of rage. Why was I made to wear these awful scars?
Remember, our focus should remain on development because it is development alone that can transform this nation as well as the lives of its people.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
Just sharing things that are either embarrassing or possibly relatable, searching for that laugh so that someone makes me feel less alone. Like, ‘Oh, they laughed, so they get what I’m saying.
A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms.
We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.
Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.
It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me.
That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.
I restore myself when I’m alone.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field – it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
If you’re going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It’s a cacophony, it’s like a madness I think that’s been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.
Time is the most valuable thing in life because it never comes back. And whether you spend it in the arms of a loved one or alone in a prison cell, life is what you make of it.
We never need to feel that we are alone or unloved in the Lord’s service because we never are. We can feel the love of God. The Savior has promised angels on our left and our right to bear us up. And He always keeps His word.
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
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.
To be sure, the provision of liquidity alone can by no means solve the problems of credit risk and credit losses; but it can reduce liquidity premiums, help restore the confidence of investors, and thus promote stability.
I’ve performed solo for 20 years now, but I don’t do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved.
God did not want me to be a blind beggar on the street, alone and bitter. He gave me music, first to be my companion and then to be my salvation.
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 think it’s interesting that ‘cologne’ rhymes with ‘alone.’
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
You can’t get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
I have a very different fear if I’m all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that there is nothing below me, no Sherpa, no tent, no rope.
The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you’ll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life.
One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they’re afraid someone is going to ‘steal my ideal.’ Ideas alone are worth very little; it’s in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Being an only child, I was alone a lot and I had to make up games.
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
Russia alone has the capacity to obliterate the United States.
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
I loved the High Line when it was just mine, when I was the only person up there, and I had a private park in New York City. I had to make an appointment to see it… I’d walk around. I was all alone.
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others.
My wealth doesn’t come from offerings alone.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
All love is lost but upon God alone.
No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
To diagnose and treat a brain disorder accurately, it would be necessary to look at the brain directly. Looking at behavior alone can miss a vital piece of the puzzle and provide an incomplete, or even a misleading, picture of the child’s problems.
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve – or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart – or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition – or to be imprisoned by it.
Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
‘Home Alone’ was a movie, not an alibi.
I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone – when the time was right for me.
Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
I think it’s just being good every single day and being there for my teammates. I know that I can’t do it alone, and they can’t do it alone, and we’ve got to lean on each other.
I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.
How can something that’s 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.
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.
Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President’s widow?
A hospital alone shows what war is.
My go-to karaoke? ‘Alone’ by Celine Dion.
I’m the kind of guy who can’t keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.
It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone.
No one deserves to die alone. No matter who you are, you deserve to have someone by your side. And as a volunteer with hospice, we provide that love, comfort, and respect.
You’re never alone on the dole in Manchester.
When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don’t feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
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.
We can’t give excessive, unfettered power to a president to act alone, to bind an entire country to a set of principles, a set of rules that the president, him or herself, makes.
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business.
One of the major dangers of being alone in February is the tendency to dwell on past relationships. Whether you’re daydreaming about that ‘one that got away,’ or you’re recalling the fairy tale date you went on last Valentine’s Day, romanticizing the past isn’t helpful – nor accurate.
To be adult is to be alone.
I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
I’ve been told that having an Instagram account will help me book more roles, get more endorsement deals. It makes you more of a brand. But I’m not interested. I want to build my fan base through movies and movies alone.
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
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.
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone.
I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
I don’t even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
If there’s anything worse than a woman living alone, it’s a woman saying she likes it.
My favorite was the Silver Surfer growing up. I just thought that his slug line, ‘He who travels fastest, always travels alone,’ always appealed to me as a kid.
Man’s ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.
Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.
To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey… Doesn’t try it on.
Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.
I can’t say it was always ice cream and rainbows in our house. We would yell and we would fight and I was a terrible child, and it was, but, on the other hand, laughs. I don’t think I’m alone in this.
Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased ‘Quicken’ or ‘Microsoft Money’ over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
There’s a lot of drama that goes into just buying a house, let alone renovating a house.
We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
I really love football and for this reason alone, I trained hard every day, building up good stamina and energy.
If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won’t secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide until they can all act together and make an impact.
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.
My pace alone is unstoppable. No one can keep my pace.
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, – Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don’t see things clearly as long as you’re still involved.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.
You’re alone in your ideas, because you’re the only one who knows what’s possible.
Democracy is liberty – a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.
I know that when I get down or feel alone or depressed, I make music, and it makes me happy.
The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C – not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes.
For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced – in his smallness of mind – that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone – against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts – that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.
So you see, you can’t do everything alone.
When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‘I never want to be alone.’ That’s what I would say. I don’t want to be alone.
The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.
My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening – corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.
In conclusion, alone quotes remind us of the profound power of solitude in our lives. They encourage us to embrace moments of being alone, to seek solace in our own company, and to tap into the strength and wisdom that lie within. Let these quotes inspire you to carve out time for yourself, to appreciate the beauty of solitude, and to find inner peace in the midst of a busy world. Remember, in moments of solitude, we can discover our true selves and nourish the spirit within.
