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 ~
• There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.
  ~ Peter Guber ~
• It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
  ~ Bruce Barton ~
• Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
  ~ Don Delillo ~
• Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
  ~ Octavia Butler ~
• The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
  ~ Malcolm Turnbull ~
• And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
  ~ Mos Def ~
• And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
  ~ Mos Def ~
• I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
  ~ Laurence Sterne ~
• Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
  ~ Emo Philips ~
• I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
  ~ Emo Philips ~
• One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.
  ~ Rita Dove ~
• Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.
  ~ Eric Ries ~
• Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.
  ~ Eric Ries ~
• The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
  ~ George Osborne ~
• The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
  ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman ~
• While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
  ~ Josh Mcdowell ~
• While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
  ~ Josh Mcdowell ~
• The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
  ~ Thornton Wilder ~
• But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
  ~ Thornton Wilder ~
• The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
  ~ Thornton Wilder ~
• The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
  ~ Robert Anton Wilson ~
• People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
  ~ Henry James ~
• To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
  ~ William Osler ~
• 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.
  ~ William Osler ~
• I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
  ~ Princess Diana ~
• Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.
  ~ Andrew Shue ~
• You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.
  ~ Bethenny Frankel ~
• The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.
  ~ David Miliband ~
• The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.
  ~ David Miliband ~
• 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.
  ~ Sarah Mclachlan ~
• 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.
  ~ Sarah Mclachlan ~
• 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.
  ~ Sarah Mclachlan ~
• 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.
  ~ Charles Babbage ~
• 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.
  ~ Charles Babbage ~
• 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 ~
• But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
  ~ Dan Rather ~
• But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
  ~ Dan Rather ~
• I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
  ~ Britney Spears ~
• I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
  ~ Britney Spears ~
• I was never less alone than when by myself.
  ~ Edward Gibbon ~
• Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
  ~ Joseph Joubert ~
• One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
  ~ Edward Abbey ~
• It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.
  ~ Paul Theroux ~
• No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.
  ~ Mitch Daniels ~
• Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.
  ~ Mira Nair ~
• Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.
  ~ Mira Nair ~
• Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
  ~ Jacob Bronowski ~
• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
  ~ Benito Mussolini ~
• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
  ~ Benito Mussolini ~
• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
  ~ Benito Mussolini ~
• I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
  ~ Golda Meir ~
• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
  ~ Fiona Apple ~
• Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
  ~ Fiona Apple ~
• Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
  ~ Fiona Apple ~
• I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.
  ~ Fiona Apple ~
• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
  ~ Fiona Apple ~