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.
