Embrace Solitude: Quotes on Being Alone - Page 8

Explore our curated collection of quotes on solitude and being alone. Find strength and peace in solitude with insights from notable thinkers. Page 8 provides more alone quotes.

Image of Spike Lee
I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.
- Spike Lee
Collection: Alone
Image of Alanis Morissette
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
- Alanis Morissette
Collection: Alone
Image of Elie Wiesel
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
- Elie Wiesel
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Image of Charles Lindbergh
To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.
- Charles Lindbergh
Collection: Alone
Image of Janet Napolitano
Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.
- Janet Napolitano
Collection: Alone
Image of George Gershwin
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
- George Gershwin
Collection: Alone
Image of H. P. Lovecraft
It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Collection: Alone
Image of Joyce Maynard
To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
- Joyce Maynard
Collection: Alone
Image of Herbert Hoover
Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from governmental restraints.
- Herbert Hoover
Collection: Alone
Image of Richard Branson
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
- Richard Branson
Collection: Alone
Image of Walter Payton
Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
- Walter Payton
Collection: Alone
Image of Jack LaLanne
You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
- Jack LaLanne
Collection: Alone
Image of Torrey DeVitto
No one deserves to die alone. No matter who you are, you deserve to have someone by your side. And as a volunteer with hospice, we provide that love, comfort, and respect.
- Torrey DeVitto
Collection: Alone
Image of Donovan
The way I sing my songs leads the listener into a place of introspection, a state of mind that can trigger self-healing and the kind of profound rest you cannot get from sleep alone.
- Donovan
Collection: Alone
Image of George Armstrong Custer
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
- George Armstrong Custer
Collection: Alone
Image of Christian Lous Lange
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
- Christian Lous Lange
Collection: Alone
Image of Thomas Becket
My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, he shall not be dashed to pieces, for the Lord sustains him in his hand.
- Thomas Becket
Collection: Alone
Image of George Monbiot
On my first night at boarding school, I felt entirely alone. I was shocked, frightened and intensely homesick, but I soon discovered that expressing these emotions, instead of bringing help and consolation, attracted a gloating, predatory fascination.
- George Monbiot
Collection: Alone
Image of John Cheever
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
- John Cheever
Collection: Alone
Image of Walter Scott
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
- Walter Scott
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Image of Tatjana Patitz
Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
- Tatjana Patitz
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Image of Ivan Turgenev
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
- Ivan Turgenev
Collection: Alone
Image of Amy Morin
One of the major dangers of being alone in February is the tendency to dwell on past relationships. Whether you're daydreaming about that 'one that got away,' or you're recalling the fairy tale date you went on last Valentine's Day, romanticizing the past isn't helpful - nor accurate.
- Amy Morin
Collection: Alone
Image of Gustave Flaubert
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
- Gustave Flaubert
Collection: Alone
Image of Laura Bush
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
- Laura Bush
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Image of John Hannah
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
- John Hannah
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Image of John Witherspoon
The kids of America, please get a damn job. Get out of the house, leave the refrigerator alone. Stop wearing my shoes. Leave my shirts alone, get a job. Spend your own money.
- John Witherspoon
Collection: Alone
Image of Peter Abrahams
You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
- Peter Abrahams
Collection: Alone
Image of Ben Folds
Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.
- Ben Folds
Collection: Alone
Image of Chief Seattle
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.
- Chief Seattle
Collection: Alone
Image of Dar Williams
In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.
- Dar Williams
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Image of Earl Sweatshirt
People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.
- Earl Sweatshirt
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Image of Sabrina Carpenter
I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
- Sabrina Carpenter
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Image of Danielle Fishel
I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.
- Danielle Fishel
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Image of Lena Horne
I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
- Lena Horne
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Image of Mark Foster
Travelling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.
- Mark Foster
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Image of Maya Angelou
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
- Maya Angelou
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Image of Yousuf Karsh
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
- Yousuf Karsh
Collection: Alone
Image of Judy Garland
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
- Judy Garland
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Image of Kofi Annan
The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
- Kofi Annan
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Image of Marilyn Monroe
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
- Marilyn Monroe
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Image of Joseph Gordon-Levitt
If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Image of Robert Anton Wilson
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
- Robert Anton Wilson
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Image of Pearl S. Buck
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
- Pearl S. Buck
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Image of Roy Orbison
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
- Roy Orbison
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Image of Cathy Freeman
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
- Cathy Freeman
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Image of Charles Caleb Colton
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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Image of Tori Amos
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
- Tori Amos
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Image of Drew Barrymore
There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.
- Drew Barrymore
Collection: Alone