Embrace Solitude: Quotes on Being Alone - Page 11

Explore our curated collection of quotes on solitude and being alone. Find strength and peace in solitude with insights from notable thinkers. Page 11 provides more alone quotes.

Image of 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
Collection: Alone
Image of Theodor W. Adorno
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
- Theodor W. Adorno
Collection: Alone
Image of Paul Thomas Anderson
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.
- Paul Thomas Anderson
Collection: Alone
Image of Paloma Faith
It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.
- Paloma Faith
Collection: Alone
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: Alone
Image of Mira Nair
'Queen of Katwe' is an absolutely true story. And it's wonderful. But it's not about saviors. Your only savior is yourself - but yourself with your community. It's never alone. You have to have someone who believes in you.
- Mira Nair
Collection: Alone
Image of Jacqueline Woodson
The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
- Jacqueline Woodson
Collection: Alone
Image of David Brooks
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
- David Brooks
Collection: Alone
Image of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
I had the privilege of hearing incredibly brave women standing up to tell their stories - harrowing stories that reduced many of us listeners to tears. But with each story, the taboo around domestic abuse weakens and the silence that surrounds it is broken, so other sufferers can know that there is hope for them and they are not alone.
- Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Collection: Alone
Image of Mickey Rooney
To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.
- Mickey Rooney
Collection: Alone
Image of David A. Bednar
Testimony is the beginning of and a prerequisite to continuing conversion. Testimony is a point of departure; it is not an ultimate destination. Strong testimony is the foundation upon which conversion is established. Testimony alone is not and will not be enough to protect us in the latter-day storm of darkness and evil in which we are living.
- David A. Bednar
Collection: Alone
Image of Douglas Southall Freeman
Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.
- Douglas Southall Freeman
Collection: Alone
Image of Suman Ranganathan
It's not easy living alone but I've done it before.
- Suman Ranganathan
Collection: Alone
Image of Jason O'Mara
It's nice to have a kind of Batman that isn't the 'I work alone. I'm darkness. I am the night' kind of thing.
- Jason O'Mara
Collection: Alone
Image of Chelsea Peretti
On tour, it's either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. You're just looking for any proof that you're not completely alone.
- Chelsea Peretti
Collection: Alone
Image of John Piper
When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.
- John Piper
Collection: Alone
Image of Terry McMillan
You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
- Terry McMillan
Collection: Alone
Image of Justin Long
If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
- Justin Long
Collection: Alone
Image of Manoj Bajpayee
Talent alone doesn't matter in this industry, and everyone knows this. If someone says, 'Good films are done', 'Talent always survives', there are other factors, too, which are far more important.
- Manoj Bajpayee
Collection: Alone
Image of Jasmila Zbanic
Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism is destroying this social aspect of films, and even empathy, by creating the illusion that you are more important than the next person: 'You will buy this because you are special.' That is horrible.
- Jasmila Zbanic
Collection: Alone
Image of Arbaaz Khan
When you are living alone then you tend to take life casually.
- Arbaaz Khan
Collection: Alone
Image of Cate Blanchett
There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.
- Cate Blanchett
Collection: Alone
Image of Jane Fonda
I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.
- Jane Fonda
Collection: Alone
Image of Angela Rayner
I cannot be clearer about this. I am not in politics, let alone Labour's shadow cabinet, to keep things as they are.
- Angela Rayner
Collection: Alone
Image of Naveen Patnaik
We prefer to be isolated in Odisha. That is a policy of equidistance, and going it alone has served us well in the past.
- Naveen Patnaik
Collection: Alone
Image of Elif Batuman
Most Americans have probably heard the song 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town' about a billion times in the supermarket alone.
- Elif Batuman
Collection: Alone
Image of Arthur Erickson
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
- Arthur Erickson
Collection: Alone
Image of Jack Schlossberg
Obama set a record number of deportations of illegal immigrants in 2011, but that fact alone is misleading. Obama has spoken in favor of and has urged Congress to pass the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow young undocumented immigrants to stay in America, their home, and achieve citizenship by going to college or serving in the military.
- Jack Schlossberg
Collection: Alone
Image of Rob Lowe
In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.
- Rob Lowe
Collection: Alone
Image of Travis Pastrana
I've had six surgeries on my left knee alone.
- Travis Pastrana
Collection: Alone
Image of Roseanne Barr
I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn't do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things.
- Roseanne Barr
Collection: Alone
Image of Dwight Yorke
I've done all the coaching badges at St George's and the one thing I find very difficult, let alone get a job, is to even get an interview.
- Dwight Yorke
Collection: Alone
Image of Xavi
Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.
- Xavi
Collection: Alone
Image of Hope Solo
I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. I'm sorry.
- Hope Solo
Collection: Alone
Image of Karan Singh Grover
I quit 'Qubool Hai' at the right time. When 'Alone' was offered to me, I was learning production and direction. I don't think not being seen on TV for more than a year will affect my popularity or 'Alone.'
- Karan Singh Grover
Collection: Alone
Image of Piyush Goyal
My solar energy programme alone will generate about a million jobs.
- Piyush Goyal
Collection: Alone
Image of Al Lopez
The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
- Al Lopez
Collection: Alone
Image of Liz Torres
I'm Hispanic - don't mess around with my coffee. Leave my beans alone.
- Liz Torres
Collection: Alone
Image of Amber Liu
For me, when I went through my depression, I always felt like I was alone, and because people never understood me, I had to shut myself out from the world. Art and music was the only thing that could ever help me get over that.
- Amber Liu
Collection: Alone
Image of V. S. Naipaul
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
- V. S. Naipaul
Collection: Alone
Image of Black Elk
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
Collection: Alone
Image of Sigrid
I really just like to sit alone at the piano. I need my me time.
- Sigrid
Collection: Alone
Image of Margaret D. Nadauld
You, too, are loved by the Lord, just as were the disciples of old. You are loved more than you will ever know. He wants you to be successful in your life's mission! You don't have to face the experiences of this life alone, nor have you been sent here to fail.
- Margaret D. Nadauld
Collection: Alone
Image of 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
Collection: Alone
Image of Marianne Williamson
The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.
- Marianne Williamson
Collection: Alone
Image of Homaro Cantu
Every month, about 20 tons of paper are wasted in restaurant menus alone, and so, you know, by that rationale, if you just ate your menu that was made from organic, local products, you could eliminate that paper waste.
- Homaro Cantu
Collection: Alone
Image of M. F. Husain
I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
- M. F. Husain
Collection: Alone
Image of Salvatore Quasimodo
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
- Salvatore Quasimodo
Collection: Alone
Image of Meena Harris
In fact, when I began selling 'Phenomenal Woman' T-shirts on International Women's Day last year, the campaign was supposed to run just through March, for Women's History Month. At the time, I hoped to sell around 500, maybe 1,000 T-shirts in total. We ended up selling 2,500 T-shirts on the first day alone.
- Meena Harris
Collection: Alone