ALONE QUOTES

• In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• There is a destiny That makes us brothers None goes his way alone All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.
  ~ Edwin Markham ~
• The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
  ~ John Dryden ~
• Achievements aren't made by your doings alone, but by your believings as well.
  ~ Masrurah Hanafi ~
• Simply put, simply said, silence is grave, silence is sweet , never alone silence stands silently.
  ~ Bolatito Akinyemi ~
• It's ok not feel secure just know you're not alone.
  ~ Imani Jayden ~
• Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone.
  ~ Clive Staples Lewis ~
• When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
  ~ Gertrude Stein ~
• When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well
  ~ John Milton ~
• We are rarely proud when we are alone.
  ~ Voltaire ~
• They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
  ~ Sir Philip Sidney ~
• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
  ~ Gelett Burgess ~
• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
  ~ Gelett Burgess ~
• The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
  ~ Octavio Paz ~
• Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
  ~ Francis Quarles ~
• Of all the Gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of Heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
  ~ Langston Hughes ~
• Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
  ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
• Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep, and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
  ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
• In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions know that you are alone in the world.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. 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.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
  ~ John Dryden ~
• Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.
  ~ Rudyard Kipling ~
• Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.
  ~ Virgil ~
• But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.
  ~ John Milton ~
• As if there were safety in stupidity alone.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
  ~ William Wordsworth ~
• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
  ~ Tennessee Williams ~
• When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
  ~ Walter Scott ~
• I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.
  ~ Jeanne Moreau ~
• I need, absolutely, to be alone.
  ~ Jeanne Moreau ~
• In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.
  ~ Michelle Bachelet ~
• Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
  ~ John Muir ~
• Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
  ~ John Muir ~
• Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
  ~ John Muir ~
• Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.
  ~ Tori Spelling ~
• Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
  ~ Alfred North Whitehead ~
• Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
  ~ Alfred North Whitehead ~
• What good is sitting all alone in your room?
  ~ Liza Minnelli ~
• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
  ~ Wendell Berry ~
• My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.
  ~ Dirk Benedict ~
• It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.
  ~ Dirk Benedict ~
• In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.
  ~ Jeff Miller ~
• In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.
  ~ Jeff Miller ~
• I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.
  ~ Robert Teeter ~
• I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.
  ~ Robert Teeter ~
• Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.
  ~ Yitzhak Rabin ~
• Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.
  ~ Yitzhak Rabin ~
• We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
  ~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
• When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.
  ~ Whitney Houston ~
• 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 ~
• I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
  ~ Whitney Houston ~
• I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.
  ~ Jodi Picoult ~
• After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
  ~ Francesca Annis ~
• After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
  ~ Francesca Annis ~
• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
  ~ Andre Gide ~
• I would point out that I'm an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered another career because I wouldn't have been alone in my room, making up other characters for myself. I definitely had growing pains. The popular kids didn't want anything to do with the girl who was starting the drama club.
  ~ Ginnifer Goodwin ~
• I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet.
  ~ Ginnifer Goodwin ~
• I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
  ~ John Updike ~
• I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
  ~ John Updike ~
• Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
  ~ John Updike ~
• I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
  ~ Laura Linney ~
• As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
  ~ Billy Joel ~
• Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
  ~ Reinhold Niebuhr ~
• I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.
  ~ Maurice Sendak ~
• We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.
  ~ Alison Sweeney ~
• We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.
  ~ Alison Sweeney ~
• We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.
  ~ Alison Sweeney ~
• Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
  ~ Coco Chanel ~
• Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
  ~ Coco Chanel ~
• Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
  ~ Coco Chanel ~
• 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.
  ~ Marcel Proust ~
• Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
  ~ Marcel Proust ~
• 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.
  ~ Marcel Proust ~
• Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
  ~ Marcel Proust ~
• I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
  ~ Paul Cezanne ~
• I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
  ~ Paul Cezanne ~
• The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
  ~ Henry Adams ~
• With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
  ~ Arthur Erickson ~
• I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.
  ~ Susan Orlean ~
• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
  ~ Carl Jung ~
• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
  ~ Carl Jung ~
• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
  ~ Carl Jung ~
• 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.
  ~ Marshall Mcluhan ~
• 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.
  ~ Marshall Mcluhan ~
• 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.
  ~ Marshall Mcluhan ~
• In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
  ~ Jeff Goodell ~
• No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
  ~ Kin Hubbard ~