Alone Quotes

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

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

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

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

To be great is to be misunderstood.

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.

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.

Be good and you will be lonely.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

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

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Always stand on principle....even if you stand alone.

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

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

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

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

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

One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

We're all in this alone.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

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.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

—then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you

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

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

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.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks know that I know nothing.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

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.

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.

The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel.

I want to be left alone.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, - Avant d'y voir notre linceul)

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

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

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

Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

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.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

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

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.