Quotes about Alone

“Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.”

“When the people you love are gone, you're alone.”

“I can be at my house sitting there making music alone, and every single time I've ever done that the first thing I do when I'm done, no matter if it's 4 in the morning... I literally just pick up my phone and I call someone.”

“Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”

“Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.”

“This life, this purpose, this American spirit that we hold dear - we are not alone. We do it together.”

“You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.”

“Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.”

“Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.”

“The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.”

“And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.”

“That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.”

“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”

“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.”

“You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.”

“No one should be left to suffer alone.”

“I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.”

“In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a 'should' involved, and this cannot be worked out from, 'If I do this, what will happen?' alone.”

“I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.”

“We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.”

“The private little world that I create with my music is something that most people like to listen to alone and get into.”