Quotes about Alone

“To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.”

“I looked at Willie Nelson and Farm Aid as a role model; they do it every year, and it draws people together, and drawing people together where they realize they're not alone, to me, is strategic in healing.”

“Artists walk alone.”

“A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.”

“There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.”

“You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.”

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

“My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.”

“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.”

“Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes.”

“I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.”

“The studio and the stage are very different atmospheres. The studio is very personal. You are alone with your own idea and sounds. You can write your songs and make it happen at your own pace.”

“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.”

“I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.”

“How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.”

“I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.”

“It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.”

“My favorite was the Silver Surfer growing up. I just thought that his slug line, 'He who travels fastest, always travels alone,' always appealed to me as a kid.”

“I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like.”

“But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.”

“Cats, unlike dogs, are independent creatures. They do not need walking and are content to be alone all day, providing they are fed.”