Quotes about Alone

“I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at our own game or in racking my brains over what could possibly constitute a contribution when novels pale before the newspaper.”

“When people are with me, who can say I am alone.”

“For me, when I went through my depression, I always felt like I was alone, and because people never understood me, I had to shut myself out from the world. Art and music was the only thing that could ever help me get over that.”

“I don't think people take enough time to themselves or like to be alone anymore, but it's really important.”

“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”

“We're too often told that our mistakes are ours alone, but victory is a shared benefit.”

“The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.”

“Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.”

“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.”

“During the first couple of years at school... I used to take my lunch and go down by the old fair grounds & sit alone by the side of the road & eat it... Those lovely, lonely lunches stick deep in my memory as unhappy times.”

“People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.”

“Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.”

“Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.”

“I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get charged with perjury strictly for political purposes.”

“I tend to leave people alone that I admire.”

“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”

“For every game we play, I might have spent 12 hours working on the video alone. In an hour, the players have to understand everything you have seen in 12 hours.”

“Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.”

“As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.”

“When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.”

“That's how I feel sometimes. I don't want to be around nobody. I just want to be alone.”