Embrace Solitude: Quotes on Being Alone - Page 5

Explore our curated collection of quotes on solitude and being alone. Find strength and peace in solitude with insights from notable thinkers. Page 5 provides more alone quotes.

Image of Richard Pryor
I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.
- Richard Pryor
Collection: Alone
Image of John Battelle
Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google alone, but Google's narrative worked to drive the entire story.
- John Battelle
Collection: Alone
Image of Dylan Thomas
The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.
- Dylan Thomas
Collection: Alone
Image of Robert Smith
I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.
- Robert Smith
Collection: Alone
Image of Henry Adams
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
- Henry Adams
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Image of David Benioff
'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
- David Benioff
Collection: Alone
Image of Chuck Palahniuk
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
- Chuck Palahniuk
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Image of Sophocles
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
- Sophocles
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Image of Candice Patton
I'm quite a loner. I realized that I'm very introverted, and I get energy by being alone instead of being with other people.
- Candice Patton
Collection: Alone
Image of Horace
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
- Horace
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Image of Ellen G. White
Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.
- Ellen G. White
Collection: Alone
Image of Tyler Joseph
From the beginning, my songwriting was from writing in a journal; it was completely unfiltered. I don't know if I really meant to show everyone this side of me, but when I saw how people resonated to the things I was saying, some of the questions I was asking, I realized I was not alone.
- Tyler Joseph
Collection: Alone
Image of Adriana Lima
I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.
- Adriana Lima
Collection: Alone
Image of William Goldman
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it, putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before.
- William Goldman
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Alone
Image of Peter Fenn
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.
- Peter Fenn
Collection: Alone
Image of Steve-O
The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.
- Steve-O
Collection: Alone
Image of Vick Hope
Travelling alone gave me time and space, free of the pressures of trying to verbalise experiences, so I could simply feel the joy of my own existence. This was an extremely powerful realisation: I didn't just find strength and solace in being alone, but I learned to love it.
- Vick Hope
Collection: Alone
Image of Jordan Larson
I think it's just being good every single day and being there for my teammates. I know that I can't do it alone, and they can't do it alone, and we've got to lean on each other.
- Jordan Larson
Collection: Alone
Image of Celine Dion
Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.
- Celine Dion
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Image of May Sarton
In the country of pain we are each alone.
- May Sarton
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Image of Markus Zusak
I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.
- Markus Zusak
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Image of Sholom Aleichem
One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.
- Sholom Aleichem
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Image of Thomas Hardy
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
- Thomas Hardy
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Image of Agnes Macphail
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
- Agnes Macphail
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Image of Milo Ventimiglia
I found that people want stories that are not too dissimilar from theirs. People want to be reminded that, let's say, struggle in your family is being felt by other people, that you're not alone.
- Milo Ventimiglia
Collection: Alone
Image of P. T. Barnum
Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
- P. T. Barnum
Collection: Alone
Image of Sebastian Kurz
Doing the right thing is a decision, which in many cases means you stand alone.
- Sebastian Kurz
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Image of John Berger
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
- John Berger
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Image of Jackie Kennedy
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
- Jackie Kennedy
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Image of Gabriel Iglesias
I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
- Gabriel Iglesias
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Image of Matt Haig
Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.
- Matt Haig
Collection: Alone
Image of Alicia Keys
If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
- Alicia Keys
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Image of Mary Harris Jones
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
- Mary Harris Jones
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Image of Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
- Marilyn vos Savant
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Image of Charlotte Whitton
Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
- Charlotte Whitton
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Image of Leah Busque
Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.
- Leah Busque
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Image of Alphonsus Liguori
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
- Alphonsus Liguori
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Image of Lorne Balfe
A composer's a pretty lonely life. When people talk about premieres and movie star - no. We sit in a dark room and spend a lot of time alone.
- Lorne Balfe
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Image of Maya Angelou
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
- Maya Angelou
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Image of Golda Meir
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
- Golda Meir
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Image of Chiang Kai-shek
Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.
- Chiang Kai-shek
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Image of Sam Houston
I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
- Sam Houston
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Image of Michelangelo
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
- Michelangelo
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Image of Hannah Fry
I certainly think there are some skills we'll lose as we hand things over to automation. I can barely remember my own phone number now, let alone the long list of numbers I used to know, and my handwriting has completely gone to pot.
- Hannah Fry
Collection: Alone
Image of Paul Tillich
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
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Image of Steven Biko
Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.
- Steven Biko
Collection: Alone
Image of Friedrich List
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
- Friedrich List
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Image of Dylan Thomas
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
- Dylan Thomas
Collection: Alone