Quotes about Alone

“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”

“As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones.”

“If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.”

“Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.”

“You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.”

“I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.”

“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.”

“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”

“How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.”

“When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.”

“A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.”

“My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.”

“Leave the atom alone.”

“For a family to have five kids and to have emigrated from the West Indies, my father from Jamaica and my mother from Montserrat - it's not easy to provide for five kids let alone put three kids in AAA hockey, one being a goalie, and put two daughters through university.”

“As a goalkeeper, you have so much time back there where you're alone, and you're talking to yourself in your head.”

“Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.”

“I think I jump around more when I'm alone.”

“Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.”

“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.”

“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”

“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.”