Embrace Solitude: Quotes on Being Alone - Page 3

Explore our curated collection of quotes on solitude and being alone. Find strength and peace in solitude with insights from notable thinkers. Page 3 provides more alone quotes.

Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: Alone
Image of Antonio Porchia
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
- Antonio Porchia
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Image of Klay Thompson
I know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have a great supporting cast.
- Klay Thompson
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Image of James Madison
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- James Madison
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Image of Philip Rosenthal
And with regard to the Italian family we portrayed on 'Everybody Loves Raymond' - Italians and Jews do share two traits: all problems are solved with food, and the mother never leaves you alone.
- Philip Rosenthal
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Image of Akira Toriyama
Inside me, 'Dragon Ball' became a thing of the past, but later, I got upset at the live-action film, revised the script for the anime film, and complained about the quality of the TV anime. I guess, at some point, it became a work that I like so much that I can't leave it alone.
- Akira Toriyama
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Image of Anna Held
Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'
- Anna Held
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Image of Peter Handke
The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.
- Peter Handke
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Kenko Yoshida
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
- Kenko Yoshida
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Image of Virginia Postrel
America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.
- Virginia Postrel
Collection: Alone
Image of Marilyn Monroe
I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
- Marilyn Monroe
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Image of Rohan Bopanna
I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.
- Rohan Bopanna
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Image of Sylvester Stallone
Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.
- Sylvester Stallone
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Image of John Paul Jones
The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.
- John Paul Jones
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Image of Carolina Herrera
Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.
- Carolina Herrera
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Image of K. D. Lang
You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
- K. D. Lang
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Image of Stephen Chbosky
If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.
- Stephen Chbosky
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Image of Jenny Holzer
It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.
- Jenny Holzer
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Image of Franz Kline
If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.
- Franz Kline
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Image of Richard Dawkins
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.
- Richard Dawkins
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Image of Pete Rose
Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'
- Pete Rose
Collection: Alone
Image of Terri Irwin
Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.
- Terri Irwin
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Henry Vaughan
They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
- Henry Vaughan
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Image of Robert Frost
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
- Robert Frost
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Image of Margaret Sanger
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
- Margaret Sanger
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Image of Zadie Smith
Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
- Zadie Smith
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Image of Laurence J. Peter
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
- Laurence J. Peter
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Image of Liberty Hyde Bailey
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Image of Maye Musk
If you can eat five fruits and vegetables a day, that alone can totally change your diet.
- Maye Musk
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Image of Sigmund Freud
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
- Sigmund Freud
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Image of Richard Lovelace
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
- Richard Lovelace
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Image of Mitski
I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
- Mitski
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Image of Tony Bellew
I just want to be left alone.
- Tony Bellew
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Image of Wendell Berry
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
- Wendell Berry
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Image of Marie Curie
In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.
- Marie Curie
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Image of Coco Chanel
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
- Coco Chanel
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Image of Halle Berry
I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
- Halle Berry
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Image of Meryl Streep
I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.
- Meryl Streep
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Image of Anthony Minghella
You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
- Anthony Minghella
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Image of Magic Johnson
When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
- Magic Johnson
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Image of David Lidington
Sometimes getting something off your chest to someone else is an important step in coping - so you know that you're not alone, you're not failing, and that it is perfectly normal to feel overwhelmed or sad at times. Everybody does.
- David Lidington
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Image of Alice Koller
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
- Alice Koller
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Jurgen Klopp
When you play sports like tennis, you're alone, and that's a good school for life, but it's also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too - helping others in difficult moments.
- Jurgen Klopp
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Image of Norman Schwarzkopf
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.
- Norman Schwarzkopf
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Image of Athanasius
These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.
- Athanasius
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Image of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Collection: Alone