Embrace Solitude: Quotes on Being Alone - Page 16

Explore our curated collection of quotes on solitude and being alone. Find strength and peace in solitude with insights from notable thinkers. Page 16 provides more alone quotes.

Image of Toni Morrison
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
- Toni Morrison
Collection: Alone
Image of Joe Rogan
The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
- Joe Rogan
Collection: Alone
Image of Colby Covington
My pace alone is unstoppable. No one can keep my pace.
- Colby Covington
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Image of Arundhati Roy
Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me.
- Arundhati Roy
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Image of Sylvia Plath
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.
- Sylvia Plath
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Image of Octavia E. Butler
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.
- Octavia E. Butler
Collection: Alone
Image of Thomas de Quincey
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
- Thomas de Quincey
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Image of Vic Fuentes
When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.
- Vic Fuentes
Collection: Alone
Image of Noam Chomsky
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Alone
Image of Merritt Wever
It's always nice to be thought of and asked to do anything, let alone something different.
- Merritt Wever
Collection: Alone
Image of Venerable Bede
He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.
- Venerable Bede
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Image of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Image of Baruch Spinoza
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
- Baruch Spinoza
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Image of Vivek Murthy
If you're very introverted, you prefer to spend much of your time alone, and when you do connect, you'd rather get together with one or two close friends than face a crowd.
- Vivek Murthy
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Image of Jean-Luc Godard
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
- Jean-Luc Godard
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Image of William O. Douglas
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
- William O. Douglas
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Image of Marcel Proust
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
- Marcel Proust
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Image of Cynthia Ozick
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way.
- Cynthia Ozick
Collection: Alone
Image of John Dryden
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
- John Dryden
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Image of Holly Holm
Aim high and don't sell yourself short. Know that you're capable. Understand that a lot of people battle with a lot of things - depression, body image or whatever else - so know that it's not just you. You're not alone.
- Holly Holm
Collection: Alone
Image of Fernando Torres
It's not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn't like you, or you might need to find new friends. It's not easy, and I don't like this kind of thing. It's not easy, so you want to protect the players who are alone.
- Fernando Torres
Collection: Alone
Image of Harry Houdini
Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.
- Harry Houdini
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Image of Dada Vaswani
People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.
- Dada Vaswani
Collection: Alone
Image of Aung San Suu Kyi
One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
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Image of Jane Austen
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
Collection: Alone
Image of Clint Eastwood
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
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Image of Thomas Carlyle
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Image of Richard Lewis
I was way more comfortable in front of strangers than I was in front of relatives. So when they would laugh at my dysfunctions or my anxiety, I felt less alone, and I still do it for the same reason.
- Richard Lewis
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Image of Sonia Gandhi
Growth is essential and must be sustained. But rapid growth alone cannot address the problems arising out of continuing disparities. Tackling these is not just a matter of social justice but, more importantly, an existential necessity and a moral imperative.
- Sonia Gandhi
Collection: Alone
Image of Robert Plant
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
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Image of Eddy Merckx
It is not enough to have talent alone. You will have to train hard and motivate yourself to do your best. You should learn to live for your sport.
- Eddy Merckx
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Image of Wayne Dyer
The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
- Wayne Dyer
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Image of Michelle Bachelet
In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.
- Michelle Bachelet
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Image of Martha Nussbaum
Gandhi, when he was on the salt march, had everyone singing the song of Rabindranath Tagore, which goes, 'Walk alone, walk alone...' Now there's some paradox in that, with a million people on the march! But he was cultivating the thought that each individual has dignity, and the dignity consists partly in the willingness to stand up to authority.
- Martha Nussbaum
Collection: Alone
Image of Helen Keller
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
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Image of George Washington
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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Image of Marilyn Monroe
I restore myself when I'm alone.
- Marilyn Monroe
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Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Image of May Sarton
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
- May Sarton
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Image of Henrik Ibsen
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
- Henrik Ibsen
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Image of Virgil Thomson
Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
- Virgil Thomson
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Image of Joseph Roux
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
- Joseph Roux
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Image of Wayne Dyer
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
- Wayne Dyer
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Image of Greta Garbo
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.
- Greta Garbo
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Image of Paul Newman
You only grow when you are alone.
- Paul Newman
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Image of Emily Carr
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
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Image of Elizabeth I
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
- Elizabeth I
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Image of Maxwell Maltz
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
- Maxwell Maltz
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Image of Norman Cousins
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
- Norman Cousins
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