Embrace Solitude: Quotes on Being Alone - Page 13

Explore our curated collection of quotes on solitude and being alone. Find strength and peace in solitude with insights from notable thinkers. Page 13 provides more alone quotes.

Image of Mohammad bin Salman
We have many opportunities in mining: we have more than 6% of world reserves of uranium. We have many unutilised assets. We have four million square metres in Mecca alone of unutilised state-owned lands.
- Mohammad bin Salman
Collection: Alone
Image of Thomas Becket
Thou knowest how long and loyally I served the king in his worldly affairs. For that cause, it pleased him to promote me to the office which now I hold. When I consented, it was for the sake of the king alone. When I was elected, I was formally acquitted of my responsibilities for all that I had done as a chancellor.
- Thomas Becket
Collection: Alone
Image of K. D. Lang
Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
- K. D. Lang
Collection: Alone
Image of Michaela Watkins
You know how when you're alone with your cat, your cat is kind of silly and goofy and kind of crazy? And as soon as people come over, your cat is like someone you've never met before? You know, poised. That's sort of what it's like working with Jennifer Lopez.
- Michaela Watkins
Collection: Alone
Image of Heidi Klum
What are you going to do if you have all the money in the world and all the things that you wanted to achieve in your business and you have no one to share it with? You come home alone at the end of the day. And then what?
- Heidi Klum
Collection: Alone
Image of Marie Helvin
My sister Naomi and I always wanted to go to Tahiti. We planned a fantastic holiday to visit several islands, but at the last moment, Naomi cancelled. It was the first time I'd holidayed alone, and it was absolutely the best.
- Marie Helvin
Collection: Alone
Image of Henry David Thoreau
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Alone
Image of Eva Marie Saint
I was in the chorus in high school, not a soloist. I was on the basketball team. I was in modern dance, part of the group. I was a cheerleader, part of the group. I played the violin, part of the orchestra. I never wanted to be out there alone. Ever.
- Eva Marie Saint
Collection: Alone
Image of Gioconda Belli
I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.
- Gioconda Belli
Collection: Alone
Image of Walter Annenberg
Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
- Walter Annenberg
Collection: Alone
Image of Hillary Clinton
Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone.
- Hillary Clinton
Collection: Alone
Image of Queen Rania of Jordan
Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
- Queen Rania of Jordan
Collection: Alone
Image of Gabriella Wilson
I want women to really feel how honest and vulnerable I am and to understand that they are not alone and that these are all human emotions.
- Gabriella Wilson
Collection: Alone
Image of Tom Rachman
Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.
- Tom Rachman
Collection: Alone
Image of Roisin Murphy
At 16, I got housing benefit, and I had my own flat in an old woman's house. I was the only 16-year-old I knew living alone.
- Roisin Murphy
Collection: Alone
Image of Queen Latifah
Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
- Queen Latifah
Collection: Alone
Image of Rafael Nadal
I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
- Rafael Nadal
Collection: Alone
Image of John Blair
Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.
- John Blair
Collection: Alone
Image of Deepika Padukone
I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.
- Deepika Padukone
Collection: Alone
Image of M. S. Swaminathan
Ultimately, multiple livelihood opportunities alone can insulate farmers in rainfed areas from the debt trap.
- M. S. Swaminathan
Collection: Alone
Image of Henry B. Eyring
If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life.
- Henry B. Eyring
Collection: Alone
Image of Shannon Purser
When I was younger, I felt very alone and that I didn't fit into my own skin. I loved the idea of becoming somebody else, and acting was an outlet for me and those emotions.
- Shannon Purser
Collection: Alone
Image of Rafael Nadal
Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
- Rafael Nadal
Collection: Alone
Image of Joyce Meyer
When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.
- Joyce Meyer
Collection: Alone
Image of Leo Tolstoy
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
Collection: Alone
Image of Stephen Hawking
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
Collection: Alone
Image of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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
Collection: Alone
Image of Claude Monet
I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
- Claude Monet
Collection: Alone
Image of Gertrude Ederle
To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.
- Gertrude Ederle
Collection: Alone
Image of Virginia Woolf
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
- Virginia Woolf
Collection: Alone
Image of Tim Burton
I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.
- Tim Burton
Collection: Alone
Image of Rosa Parks
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
- Rosa Parks
Collection: Alone
Image of Liam Gallagher
She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.
- Liam Gallagher
Collection: Alone
Image of Epictetus
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
Collection: Alone
Image of Kendall Jenner
Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.
- Kendall Jenner
Collection: Alone
Image of Jerry Reinsdorf
Players alone don't win championships. It takes an entire organization. Someone has to acquire the players. Someone has to coach them. Someone has to generate revenue to pay them. But at the end of the day, the players are the ones who put their minds and bodies on the line to win.
- Jerry Reinsdorf
Collection: Alone
Image of Toussaint Louverture
It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.
- Toussaint Louverture
Collection: Alone
Image of Richard P. Feynman
In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a 'should' involved, and this cannot be worked out from, 'If I do this, what will happen?' alone.
- Richard P. Feynman
Collection: Alone
Image of William Butler Yeats
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
- William Butler Yeats
Collection: Alone
Image of Alan Moore
Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.
- Alan Moore
Collection: Alone
Image of Novak Djokovic
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
Collection: Alone
Image of Henry B. Eyring
We never need to feel that we are alone or unloved in the Lord's service because we never are. We can feel the love of God. The Savior has promised angels on our left and our right to bear us up. And He always keeps His word.
- Henry B. Eyring
Collection: Alone
Image of Slavoj Zizek
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
Collection: Alone
Image of John C. Maxwell
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Alone
Image of Sophocles
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
- Sophocles
Collection: Alone
Image of Jason David Frank
I try to motivate people and inspire them, to let them know that they're not alone.
- Jason David Frank
Collection: Alone
Image of Ali ibn Abi Talib
Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Collection: Alone
Image of Meir Kahane
For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.
- Meir Kahane
Collection: Alone
Image of Freya Stark
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
- Freya Stark
Collection: Alone