Alone Quotes

• For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up
  • Job
  • Father

• The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Scary

• I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.

  

  John Gregory Dunne
  • Time
  • Community
  • Alone

• If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Pain
  • Ifs
  • Spares

• Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.

  

  Pattie Boyd
  • Men
  • Women
  • Alone

• I like to work from home. I do most of my writing in bed, late at night after everyone has gone to sleep. I need to be alone with my thoughts, and late at night is about the only time that can actually happen.

  

  Donald Driver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.

  

  Edward Young
  • Alone
  • Fall

• So many kids are still sitting in pews being told they are not worthy of God's love. 'Sissies' will show them they are not alone, and I hope that healing will follow.

  

  Del Shores
  • God
  • Kids
  • Hope

• The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • True

• Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

  

  Arthur Laffer
  • Government
  • Prosperity
  • Taxation

• We are responsible for these things in his race. It is not fair to visit our faults upon him, let him alone.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Alone

• There is no one subsists by himself alone.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Alone
  • Himself

• of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.

  

  Zelda Popkin
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

  

  Bruce Barton
  • World
  • Good
  • Progress

• I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Why
  • Small
  • Reading

• Virtue alone has majesty in death.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death
  • Alone

• 'Life experience' does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone, e.g., from Balzac, without any help from life.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Help

• There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • People
  • World
  • Earth

• You never see a French person eating alone.

  

  Pierre Dukan
  • Alone

• Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losersI used to watch 'em through the glass.Well I'd stand outside at closing timeJust to watch her walk on past.Unlike all the other ladies, she looked so young and sweet.As she made her way alone down that empty street.Down on Mainstreet.

  

  Bob Seger
  • She
  • Past
  • Sweet

• Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Remember
  • Hair
  • Deep

• It was virtually impossible to think of a sentence that made a positive use of that dreadful word ‘enough’, let alone one that started raving about ‘nothing’.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Alone
  • Positive

1

...

64

65

66

67

68

...

130

previous

next