Top 615 Alone Quotes

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.
John Berger
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
Anton Chekhov
Russia alone has the capacity to obliterate the United States.
Paul Keating
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.
Hunter S. Thompson
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Henry David Thoreau
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin Franklin
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
Douglas Coupland
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.
Joseph Conrad
You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
Terry McMillan
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.
Joel Sternfeld
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
Douglas Coupland
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.
Paramahansa Yogananda
My wealth doesn’t come from offerings alone.
Kenneth Copeland
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
All love is lost but upon God alone.
William Dunbar
No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
Bernadette Peters
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.
Marilyn Monroe
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.
William Temple
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.
Robert Greene
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Jeanette Winterson
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Wallace Stevens
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali
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.
Aditi Shankardass
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.
Noam Chomsky
I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a

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.
Ted Kulongoski
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.
Sissy Spacek
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.
E. O. Wilson
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill
‘Home Alone’ was a movie, not an alibi.
Jerry Orbach
I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone – when the time was right for me.
Christy Turlington
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.
Rudolf Steiner
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian
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.
Jordan Larson
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.
Jim Carrey
How can something that’s 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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.
Taylor Swift
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.
Rollo May
Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.
Kangana Ran
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb Colton
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?
Jackie Kennedy
A hospital alone shows what war is.
Erich Maria Remarque
My go-to karaoke? ‘Alone’ by Celine Dion.
Abby Wambach
I’m the kind of guy who can’t keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.
Jerry O’Connell
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.
H. P. Lovecraft
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
John Dryden
Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone.
Arnold Rothstein
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.
Torrey DeVitto
You’re never alone on the dole in Manchester.
Ian Brown
When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George Washington
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.
Padma Lakshmi
I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.
Audrey Hepburn
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.
Mike Lee
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.
Epictetus
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.
Vikram Patel
One of the major dangers of being alone in February is

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.
Amy Morin
To be adult is to be alone.
Jean Rostand
I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.
Mary MacLane
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.
Elbert Hubbard
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.
Miles Teller
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
Alberto Giacometti
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.
Whitney Houston
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.
Emily Carr
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone.
Agnes Macphail
I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
Emo Philips
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.
Sophia Loren
I don’t even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
Princess Diana