Embrace Solitude: Quotes on Being Alone - Page 14

Explore our curated collection of quotes on solitude and being alone. Find strength and peace in solitude with insights from notable thinkers. Page 14 provides more alone quotes.

Image of George Osborne
The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
- George Osborne
Collection: Alone
Image of Terry Pratchett
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
Collection: Alone
Image of Xabi Alonso
If you win the midfield, you probably win the game. But that doesn't mean the players in the midfield are the ones alone who determine that, because now we have strikers who drop into midfield and defenders who move up into the midfield. It is the area you must dominate.
- Xabi Alonso
Collection: Alone
Image of Susan L. Taylor
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 L. Taylor
Collection: Alone
Image of Gustav Klimt
Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
- Gustav Klimt
Collection: Alone
Image of Cristiano Ronaldo
I don't like being alone.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
Collection: Alone
Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Collection: Alone
Image of George Mikes
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
- George Mikes
Collection: Alone
Image of Abraham Lincoln
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Alone
Image of Werner Heisenberg
The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the quantum theory deals; it does not restrict, for example, the exactness of a position measurement alone or a velocity measurement alone.
- Werner Heisenberg
Collection: Alone
Image of H. P. Lovecraft
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Collection: Alone
Image of Henry David Thoreau
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Alone
Image of Salma Hayek
No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
- Salma Hayek
Collection: Alone
Image of Alexandre Dumas
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
- Alexandre Dumas
Collection: Alone
Image of Stephen Hawking
It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.
- Stephen Hawking
Collection: Alone
Image of Pearl S. Buck
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
Collection: Alone
Image of Paul McCartney
It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
- Paul McCartney
Collection: Alone
Image of 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
Collection: Alone
Image of Eva Gabor
I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
- Eva Gabor
Collection: Alone
Image of Joseph Conrad
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad
Collection: Alone
Image of James E. Faust
Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.
- James E. Faust
Collection: Alone
Image of Adlai Stevenson I
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- Adlai Stevenson I
Collection: Alone
Image of Alfred Doblin
Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.
- Alfred Doblin
Collection: Alone
Image of Michael Cera
I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.
- Michael Cera
Collection: Alone
Image of William Godwin
Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.
- William Godwin
Collection: Alone
Image of Charles Munch
The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.
- Charles Munch
Collection: Alone
Image of Sukarno
Am I not peaceful? We want to be free - completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone.
- Sukarno
Collection: Alone
Image of Tom Kristensen
Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.
- Tom Kristensen
Collection: Alone
Image of Robert Hunter
You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.
- Robert Hunter
Collection: Alone
Image of Thomas Merton
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.
- Thomas Merton
Collection: Alone
Image of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collection: Alone
Image of Stacy Keibler
I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.
- Stacy Keibler
Collection: Alone
Image of Charles Spurgeon
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
Collection: Alone
Image of Embeth Davidtz
I've accepted I can't rely on my work alone; I must market myself. The truly spectacular roles do go to the girls who actively promote their popularity.
- Embeth Davidtz
Collection: Alone
Image of Paul Auster
There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
- Paul Auster
Collection: Alone
Image of SZA
Every day I grapple between 'I'm going to get married' and 'I'm going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.'
- SZA
Collection: Alone
Image of Dylan Alcott
As a kid with disability, if you told me anybody in a wheelchair, let alone myself, would be Australian of the Year later, I would tell you to get stuffed.
- Dylan Alcott
Collection: Alone
Image of Arthur Laffer
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.
- Arthur Laffer
Collection: Alone
Image of Kenneth Copeland
My wealth doesn't come from offerings alone.
- Kenneth Copeland
Collection: Alone
Image of Buddha
Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.
- Buddha
Collection: Alone
Image of Bruce Willis
I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.
- Bruce Willis
Collection: Alone
Image of William Osler
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
- William Osler
Collection: Alone
Image of Paul Cezanne
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
- Paul Cezanne
Collection: Alone
Image of Mario Andretti
When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.
- Mario Andretti
Collection: Alone
Image of Albert Camus
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
- Albert Camus
Collection: Alone
Image of Margaret Thatcher
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: Alone
Image of John F. Kennedy
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
Collection: Alone
Image of Henri Nouwen
People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.
- Henri Nouwen
Collection: Alone
Image of Mary Oliver
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
- Mary Oliver
Collection: Alone