2016-02-13

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. Albert Einstein

Alone we can do so little together we can do so much. Helen Keller

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

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington

I restore myself when I’m alone. Marilyn Monroe

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. Chanakya

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

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone. Audrey Hepburn

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. Wayne Dyer

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. Maya Angelou

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. George Carlin

Language… 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. Paul Tillich

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau

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. Abdul Kalam

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying. Martin Luther

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. Anne Hathaway

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 finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems. Whitney Houston

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. Henry Rollins

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. Albert Camus

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. Charlie Chaplin

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal

We are rarely proud when we are alone. Voltaire

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. Tennessee Williams

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. Jodie Foster

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. B. R. Ambedkar

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? Judy Garland

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. Arthur Schopenhauer

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. Ellen Burstyn

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. Kurt Vonnegut

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. Tennessee Williams

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

To live alone is the fate of all great souls. Arthur Schopenhauer

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Doug Coupland

I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. Yousuf Karsh

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief. John Barrymore

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. Lord Byron

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. Mason Cooley

There’s a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I’ve got to see my friends ’cause I’m too content being by myself. Drew Barrymore

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. Dido Armstrong

The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want. Justin Timberlake

The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again. Nora Ephron

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

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. Mason Cooley

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. Hermann Hesse

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. Doug Coupland

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. Tecumseh

All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. Jean de la Bruyere

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. Charles Caleb Colton

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. Robert M. Pirsig

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. Guru Nanak

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely. Tori Amos

I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference. Greta Garbo

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. Martin Heidegger

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. Frida Kahlo

As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone. Sienna Miller

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. Gene Simmons

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life. Charles Bukowski

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. Mortimer Adler

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. Boethius

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. Baltasar Gracian

Remember we’re all in this alone. Lily Tomlin

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. Octavio Paz

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind. Martha Beck

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? Charles Lindbergh

Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone. Arnold Rothstein

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. Pearl S. Buck

Being alone is very difficult. Yoko Ono

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. Elizabeth I

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. Maxwell Maltz

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight. Roy Orbison

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. Thomas Browne

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth. Robert Anton Wilson

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. Jean de la Bruyere

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone. Keanu Reeves

You can’t fake it when you’re alone with God, you know. Jim Bakker

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. Paul Tournier

If you’re going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

By all means use some time to be alone. Edward Young

I think I jump around more when I’m alone. Nicolas Cage

When I’m alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument. Zsa Zsa Gabor

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. Jules Renard

I’m happily single. Paula Abdul

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you. Phil McGraw

I’m single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that’s me. Joel Edgerton

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend. Conor Oberst

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable. Eileen Caddy

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. Evelyn Waugh

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone. Cathy Freeman

You only grow when you are alone. Paul Newman

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. Orson Welles

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. Audrey Hepburn

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. Swami Vivekananda

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. Helen Keller

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. Mahatma Gandhi

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far. Marilyn Monroe

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. Thomas Merton

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. Cyrano de Bergerac

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike

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. Robert A. Heinlein

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. Charles Stanley

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. Thomas Jefferson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Thomas Jefferson

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. Anne Frank

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Edward Moore

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. Martin Luther

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. John F. Kennedy

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. Thomas Jefferson

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. John Quincy Adams

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. Voltaire

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. Friedrich Nietzsche

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Henry David Thoreau

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. Benjamin Franklin

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

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. Dr. Seuss

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. John F. Kennedy

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. Booker T. Washington

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. Confucius

An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. Henry Miller

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau

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. Alice Koller

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. Marilyn Monroe

I am alone I am always alone no matter what. Marilyn Monroe

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either. Marilyn Monroe

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. Marilyn Monroe

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. Marilyn Monroe

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. Ayn Rand

The doer alone learneth. Friedrich Nietzsche

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. Martin Luther

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. Henry David Thoreau

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. Henry David Thoreau

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. Robert Frost

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. George Washington

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. Erma Bombeck

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Albert Camus

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. Andre Maurois

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

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart. Martin Luther

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. Charles Stanley

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

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace. Charles Spurgeon

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. Plato

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. Napoleon Hill

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. Voltaire

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. Ferdinand Marcos

Blood alone moves the wheels of history. Martin Luther

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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. Judy Garland

I mean, I’ve always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else’s hair. Clint Eastwood

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. Marcel Proust

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. Orison Swett Marden

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. William Butler Yeats

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. Anthony Burgess

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!’ Demetri Martin

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power… the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Patrick Henry

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent. Mitt Romney

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. Jean-Paul Sartre

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. W. Clement Stone

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. Robert Plant

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. Terry Pratchett

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. Chuck Palahniuk

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. Elizabeth Bowen

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. Charles Stanley

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. E. O. Wilson

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. Charles Wesley

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. Paul Tillich

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. Baltasar Gracian

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. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. Thornton Wilder

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. Deborah Tannen

I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one. Lady Gaga

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Horace

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation. Orison Swett Marden

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. Sigmund Freud

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Thomas Carlyle

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. Leo Tolstoy

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. Samuel Johnson

No nation can meet the world’s challenges alone. Hillary Clinton

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. Carl Jung

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that’s usually how you end up crying? Chuck Palahniuk

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. Orison Swett Marden

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. Thomas Carlyle

Work alone is noble. Thomas Carlyle

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

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. Rainer Maria Rilke

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. Blaise Pascal

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up. John C. Maxwell

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. Henry A. Kissinger

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. Calvin Coolidge

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork. Edward Abbey

I want to be alone. Greta Garbo

Man’s ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. Paul Tillich

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. Michel de Montaigne

Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. Pericles

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. Stephen Hawking

Don’t ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time. Denis Waitley

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. Blaise Pascal

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. Samuel Johnson

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. Yoko Ono

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. Chuck Palahniuk

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. William Alexander

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

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. Jane Austen

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. Emily Dickinson

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. James Dean

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

Wisdom comes alone through suffering. Aeschylus

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. Honore de Balzac

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. Oliver Goldsmith

One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. W. E. B. Du Bois

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. James Russell Lowell

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems. Elie Wiesel

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. James Madison

Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone. Deepak Chopra

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad

I have grown up alone. I’ve taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18. Ingrid Bergman

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. Charles Bukowski

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator. Emo Philips

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

My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time. Jim Carrey

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos. Mick Jagger

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. Rene Descartes

Better be alone than in bad company. Thomas Fuller

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. Christian Lous Lange

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone. Janis Joplin

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Jesus Christ

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. Stendhal

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. William Butler Yeats

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. Lord Byron

Change alone is unchanging. Heraclitus

I’m not alone, I’m free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don’t have to be a symbol to anybody I don’t have to be a first to anybody. Lena Horne

Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn’t that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that’s when your creativity is developed, when you’re young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. David Walliams

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. Pope John XXIII

“The Christmas Song,’ by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I’ve never sung it, because Nat’s version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.;Harry Connick, Jr.;alone

1258;I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.;Marie Antoinette;alone

1259;I just don’t want to die alone, that’s all. That’s not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.;Richard Pryor;alone

1260;There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.;Sivananda;alone

1261;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.;Billy Idol;alone

1262;The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.;Ellen G. White;alone

1263;Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.;Rudyard Kipling;alone

1264;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;alone

1265;Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.;Peabo Bryson;alone

1266;If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.;John Burroughs;alone

1267;Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.;Sophocles;alone

1268;What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.;Lord Byron;alone

1269;Health consists with temperance alone.;Alexander Pope;alone

1270;Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.;Ludwig van Beethoven;alone

1271;The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.;Andre Gide;alone

1272;We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.;Anton Chekhov;alone

1273;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.;Menachem Mendel Schneerson;alone

1274;Music is amazing. There’s some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone… truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.;Wayne Coyne;alone

1275;Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.;Jack Nicholson;alone

1276;Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.;Alexander Pope;alone

1277;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;alone

1278;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;alone

1279;I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.;Henry Rollins;alone

1280;Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.;Arthur C. Clarke;alone

1281;The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.;Pearl S. Buck;alone

1282;Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.;Eric Hoffer;alone

1283;The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.;George W. Bush;alone

1284;If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.;E. O. Wilson;alone

1285;It is very easy to love alone.;Gertrude Stein;alone

1286;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.;Bertolt Brecht;alone

1287;Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.;R. Buckminster Fuller;alone

1288;Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.;St. Jerome;alone

1289;We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly – spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.;Susan Taylor;alone

1290;In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.;John Kenneth Galbraith;alone

1291;Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.;Reinhold Niebuhr;alone

1292;Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.;William Hazlitt;alone

1293;I don’t even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.;Princess Diana;alone

1294;To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.;James Madison;alone

1295;I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it’s easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin’ man and the loner.;Steve Martin;alone

1296;Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.;George Santayana;alone

1297;No memory is ever alone it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.;Louis L’Amour;alone

1298;We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.;Chief Joseph;alone

1299;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.;Sandra Day O’Connor;alone

1300;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.;Joseph Smith, Jr.;alone

1301;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.;Michelangelo;alone

1302;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.;John Locke;alone

1303;Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I’ve never played with a band. I’ve always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.;Steve Martin;alone

1304;We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.;Jean de la Bruyere;alone

1305;A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people’s rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.;Leonard Peltier;alone

1306;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;alone

1307;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.;Franz Kafka;alone

1308;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;alone

1309;For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?;Virginia Woolf;alone

1310;Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.;Virginia Woolf;alone

1311;Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.;Sophocles;alone

1312;The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.;Sophocles;alone

1313;Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey… Doesn’t try it on.;Billy Connolly;alone

1314;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.;Franz Kafka;alone

1315;At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.;Jean de la Bruyere;alone

1316;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.;Max Muller;alone

1317;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.;Tallulah Bankhead;alone

1318;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.;Edwin Markham;alone

1319;We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.;Simone Weil;alone

1320;What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.;Philip Zimbardo;alone

1321;Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.;Joseph Joubert;alone

1322;The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.;Mao Zedong;alone

1323;What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.;Ovid;alone

1324;Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.;James A. Garfield;alone

1325;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.;Halle Berry;alone

1326;I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.;Michelangelo;alone

1327;The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.;Michelangelo;alone

1328;No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.;Salma Hayek;alone

1329;Victims always feel alone and helpless.;Deepak Chopra;alone

1330;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!;Anthony de Mello;alone

1331;To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.;William Osler;alone

1332;I’m learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I’m doing.;Chantal Kreviazuk;alone

1333;It’s time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.;Paul McCartney;alone

1334;God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.;Paul Valery;alone

1335;When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can’t please everyone. But when you’re different, you can last.;Don Rickles;alone

1336;I believe that no man who holds a leader’s position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.;Mother Jones;alone

1337;As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere – it is a lonely place. It’s an isolated city in that respect because you’re driving to places alone listening to the radio.;Jason Schwartzman;alone

1338;The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.;Brendan Behan;alone

1339;Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.;Eliot Engel;alone

1340;When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.;Walter Scott;alone

1341;It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.;Phil McGraw;alone

1342;The best thing I’ve learned is, if you’re going out, never go out alone – you leave yourself vulnerable. If you’ve got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.;Daniel Radcliffe;alone

1343;The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.;Henrik Ibsen;alone

1344;Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.;Keith Richards;alone

1345;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.;P. G. Wodehouse;alone

1346;Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ‘Are your ready?” Johnny Carson

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold. Ludwig van Beethoven

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. Novak Djokovic

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. Theodor Adorno

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. Theodor Adorno

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. Paul Cezanne

We’re all in this alone. Lily Tomlin

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

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. David Hume

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. Alicia Keys

It’s motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. Jean de la Bruyere

I love clothes, but I don’t know what to put on myself, let alone others. I have a lot of help getting dressed. Jennifer Aniston

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone. Elayne Boosler

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

If I’m alone too long I think too much, and I’m not interested in doing that. That won’t lead anywhere good, I’m sure. If I’m busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil’s playground. Lisa Marie Presley

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing. Jerry Saltz

There’s one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. ‘The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963’ consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says. Jerry Saltz

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone. Joe Rogan

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. Dag Hammarskjold

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to. Stuart Appleby

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone. Laurence J. Peter

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. Jerome K. Jerome

I think it’s interesting that ‘cologne’ rhymes with ‘alone.’ Demetri Martin

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. Anne Lamott

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It’s very special to me. Larry Wilcox

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to – in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet – very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman. Alanis Morissette

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched. Alanis Morissette

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. Louis D. Brandeis

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. Horace Mann

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. Gustave Flaubert

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It’s really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone. Amanda Seyfried

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? Igor Stravinsky

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. Sri Aurobindo

The strong man is strongest when alone. Friedrich Schiller

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. Jules Verne

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. Cesare Pavese

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn’t have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world. Dorothy Hamill

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. Richard Thompson

I’m a teenager, but I’m independent – I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone. Adriana Lima

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one’s wife alone. Guru Nanak

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. Abu Bakar Bashir

Testing oneself is best when done alone. Jimmy Carter

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq. Norman Schwarzkopf

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. Black Elk

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. Elie Wiesel

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don’t want to stand out. You don’t want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I’m a product of nepotism. That’s how I got my foot in the door, through my dad. Jeff Bridges

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 most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone – and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone – at night. That’s the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it’s also where the title came from for the book. Paul Kane

No one ever said on their deathbed, ‘Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer’. Danielle Berry

Love alone could waken love. Pearl S. Buck

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. Golda Meir

There’s a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I’m in the same boat. Brandy Norwood

I need, absolutely, to be alone. Jeanne Moreau

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I’m going to fight for you. I’m going to fight for what’s right. I’m going to fight to hold people accountable. Barbara Boxer

I have an internal protectiveness where it’s like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I’m like, It could happen and I’m okay, I’m prepared. Lena Headey

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. Jeanette Winterson

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. Janis Joplin

Alone I’m nothing. Robert Plant

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I’m really scared of being alone because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman. Claire Danes

I don’t like being in houses alone. Martin Scorsese

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. Martin Scorsese

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. Mary Baker Eddy

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. Slavoj Zizek

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

I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. Johnny Cash

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain’s success – so for me there’s no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation. David Cameron

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it. Shia LaBeouf

If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone. Tori Amos

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family ‘gets together’ alone. Ashley Montagu

And I find – I’m 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn’t diminished any. That’s the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone. John Irving

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don’t just try to come in and take somebody else’s life. Elizabeth Edwards

Life’s an awfully lonesome affair. 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

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone. Georg Solti

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? Brendan Francis

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. Herodotus

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

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn’t hijack it. And it’s because we’re afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we’re alone. We’re not. Glenn Beck

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. David Hume

You can’t walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. Peter Abrahams

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. James Baldwin

I’ve always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I’m most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It’s why we seek the limelight – so we’re not alone, were adored. We’re loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life. Jennifer Lopez

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. Jean de la Bruyere

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? Anna Letitia Barbauld

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. Daniel Day-Lewis

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Adlai E. Stevenson

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. Adlai E. Stevenson

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

All we ask is to be let alone. Jefferson Davis

I can’t really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? Audre Lorde

As strong as the United States is, we can’t deal with terrorism alone. Madeleine Albright

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

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