Quotes about Alone

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

“My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.”

“Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.”

“We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?”

“It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.”

“In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.”

“Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.”

“On my first night at boarding school, I felt entirely alone. I was shocked, frightened and intensely homesick, but I soon discovered that expressing these emotions, instead of bringing help and consolation, attracted a gloating, predatory fascination.”

“I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.”

“No one deserves to die alone. No matter who you are, you deserve to have someone by your side. And as a volunteer with hospice, we provide that love, comfort, and respect.”

“No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.”

“The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.”

“I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.”

“Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.”

“On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.”

“The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.”

“Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.”

“There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.”

“The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.”

“Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.”

“I'm very happy alone.”