Embrace Solitude: Quotes on Being Alone - Page 2

Explore our curated collection of quotes on solitude and being alone. Find strength and peace in solitude with insights from notable thinkers. Page 2 provides more alone quotes.

Image of Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Alone
Image of Pat Nixon
I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
- Pat Nixon
Collection: Alone
Image of Frank Ocean
Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.
- Frank Ocean
Collection: Alone
Image of Chesty Puller
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
- Chesty Puller
Collection: Alone
Image of Karl Liebknecht
But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
- Karl Liebknecht
Collection: Alone
Image of Bertolt Brecht
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
- Bertolt Brecht
Collection: Alone
Image of Paul Brunton
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
- Paul Brunton
Collection: Alone
Image of Jefferson Davis
All we ask is to be let alone.
- Jefferson Davis
Collection: Alone
Image of James Lafferty
The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.
- James Lafferty
Collection: Alone
Image of Ellen G. White
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
- Ellen G. White
Collection: Alone
Image of Michelangelo
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
- Michelangelo
Collection: Alone
Image of Sam Abell
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
- Sam Abell
Collection: Alone
Image of Wayne Dyer
Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
- Wayne Dyer
Collection: Alone
Image of Ravi Zacharias
Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.
- Ravi Zacharias
Collection: Alone
Image of Marcel Proust
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
- Marcel Proust
Collection: Alone
Image of William Albert Allard
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
- William Albert Allard
Collection: Alone
Image of Kenny Omega
There are times you break up with a loved one, a friend, or whatever. You feel alone. It's a very easy feeling to understand - the feeling of loss, heartache, and pain.
- Kenny Omega
Collection: Alone
Image of Gertrude Stein
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
- Gertrude Stein
Collection: Alone
Image of Jennifer Lynch
Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.
- Jennifer Lynch
Collection: Alone
Image of Gerald R. Ford
I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
- Gerald R. Ford
Collection: Alone
Image of Brian O'Driscoll
My missus knows to leave me alone.
- Brian O'Driscoll
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Image of Laurence Sterne
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
- Laurence Sterne
Collection: Alone
Image of Dorothea Dix
I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
- Dorothea Dix
Collection: Alone
Image of Chely Wright
Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.
- Chely Wright
Collection: Alone
Image of Isaac Newton
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.
- Isaac Newton
Collection: Alone
Image of Henry S. Haskins
When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!
- Henry S. Haskins
Collection: Alone
Image of Robert Zemeckis
We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.
- Robert Zemeckis
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Image of William S. Burroughs
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
- William S. Burroughs
Collection: Alone
Image of Neil deGrasse Tyson
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Collection: Alone
Image of Orison Swett Marden
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
- Orison Swett Marden
Collection: Alone
Image of Pearl S. Buck
Love alone could waken love.
- Pearl S. Buck
Collection: Alone
Image of Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.
- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Collection: Alone
Image of Lord Byron
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
- Lord Byron
Collection: Alone
Image of Jay-Z
Obama provides hope. Whether he does anything, the hope that he provides for a nation and outside of America is enough. Just being who he is. You're the first black president. If he speaks on any issue or anything, he should be left alone.
- Jay-Z
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Image of Ryan Reynolds
I firmly believe that you can't manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.
- Ryan Reynolds
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Image of Robert Mugabe
I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone. We say no to whites owning our land, and they should go... They can own companies and apartments... but not the soil. It is ours, and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States.
- Robert Mugabe
Collection: Alone
Image of Rand Paul
I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
- Rand Paul
Collection: Alone
Image of Peter York
When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: 'Who is doing it?' Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.
- Peter York
Collection: Alone
Image of Charles Bukowski
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.
- Charles Bukowski
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Image of Sextus Propertius
Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?
- Sextus Propertius
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Image of John Oldham
Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.
- John Oldham
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Image of Taylor Swift
Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
- Taylor Swift
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Image of Charles Caleb Colton
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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Image of Stephen Hawking
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
- Stephen Hawking
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Image of Misty Copeland
A young girl reached out to me to be her mentor one day, which I didn't really know anything about. What I did remember was what it was to be alone as an African-American dancer in the ballet world and wanting to connect with someone who looks like me.
- Misty Copeland
Collection: Alone
Image of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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Image of Jean de la Bruyere
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere
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Image of Chuck Norris
Getting kids into the kitchen preparing the food they and their families will eat results in them viewing food in an entirely new way. If given the right ingredients, that act alone can raise the standards of the quality of the food both they and their family eat.
- Chuck Norris
Collection: Alone
Image of Claudia Rankine
When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.
- Claudia Rankine
Collection: Alone