Quotes about Alone

“Language... 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.”

“We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”

“Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.”

“I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.”

“With my songs, the question is always, 'Can you pull it off live, alone on just an acoustic guitar?' That's the litmus test. If I can, then it's a song I ought to record. If I can't, it's probably not good enough.”

“I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.”

“Zidane transmits a very clear idea to the players. He doesn't need to give a 20 minute motivational talk, he doesn't need it. With his presence alone, he achieves what he wants - his personality is synonymous with success.”

“Work alone is noble.”

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”

“While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.”

“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.”

“You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.”

“My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.”

“I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.”

“Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.”

“You only grow when you are alone.”

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”

“One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.”

“We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.”

“So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.”

“All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.”