There are more than 950 Alone Quotes And Struggles that will make you think positively, That is going to continue to keep you motivated to overcome the difficulties and move forward in life.

# Virgil Thomson

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

# George Washington

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

# Jean-Paul Sartre

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

# Chanakya

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

# Blaise Pascal

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

# Martin Heidegger

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

# Wayne Dyer

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

# Maxwell Maltz

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

# Greta Garbo

I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference.

# Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

# Henry Rollins

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

# Emily Carr

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

# Douglas Coupland

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

# Tennessee Williams

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

# Marilyn Monroe

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

# Jean de la Bruyere

All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

# Marilyn Monroe

I restore myself when I’m alone.

# George Washington

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

# May Sarton

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

# Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

# Helen Keller

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

# Keanu Reeves

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

# A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

# Albert Camus

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

# Henry Rollins

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

# George Washington

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

# Frida Kahlo

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

# Arthur Schopenhauer

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

# Joseph Roux

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

# Elizabeth I

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

# Lord Byron

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

# Laurence Sterne

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

# Ellen Burstyn

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

# Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

# Martin Luther

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

# Whitney Houston

I finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

# Yoko Ono

Being alone is very difficult.

# Lord Byron

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

# Dag Hammarskjold

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

# Edward Gibbon

I was never less alone than when by myself.

# Sienna Miller

As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.

# Voltaire

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

# Conor Oberst

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

# Judy Garland

It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me. Jodie Foster
If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

# Tennessee Williams

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

# Anne Hathaway

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.

# Paul Tournier

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

# Paul Tillich

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.

# Justin Timberlake

The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

# Arnold Rothstein

Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone.

# Paul Newman

You only grow when you are alone.

# Audrey Hepburn

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

# Maya Angelou

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

# Pearl S. Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

# Hermann Hesse

Solitude is independence.

# Cyrano de Bergerac

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

# Douglas Coupland

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

# Kurt Vonnegut

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

# Marilyn Monroe

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

# Jeanne Moreau

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

# Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

# Phil McGraw

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

# Guru Nanak

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

# Jean de la Bruyere

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

# Henry David Thoreau

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.

# Gene Simmons

I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.

# Drew Barrymore

There’s a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I’ve got to see my friends ’cause I’m too content being by myself.

# John Fletcher

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

# Octavio Paz

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

# Joseph Conrad

Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

# Evelyn Waugh

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

# Mason Cooley

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

# Norman Cousins

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

# Tori Amos

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

# Octavia E. Butler

I’m very happy alone.

# Lily Tomlin

Remember we’re all in this alone.

# Charles Caleb Colton

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

# Mortimer Adler

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

# Charles Lindbergh

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

# Jean Rostand

To be adult is to be alone.

# Mason Cooley

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

# Eileen Caddy

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

# Martha Beck

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

# Albert Einstein

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

# Yousuf Karsh

I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

# Kofi Annan

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

# Amy Lowell

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

# Audrey Hepburn

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

# Erica Jong

Solitude is un-American.

# George Carlin

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

# Sarah Silverman

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.

# Gertrude Stein

It is very easy to love alone.

# Robert Anton Wilson

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

# John Barrymore

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

# Hermann Hesse

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

# Jim Bakker

You can’t fake it when you’re alone with God, you know.

# Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If you’re going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

# Cathy Freeman

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

# Baltasar Gracian

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

# Greta Garbo

I want to be alone.

# Jules Renard

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

# Charles Bukowski

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

# Edward Young

By all means use some time to be alone.

# Zsa Zsa Gabor

When I’m alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

# Boethius

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

# Thomas Browne

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost

# Nora Ephron

immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again.

# Robert M. Pirsig

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

# Roy Orbison

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

# Gloria Allred

I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

# Dido Armstrong

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don’t see things clearly as long as you’re still involved.

# Paula Abdul

I’m happily single.

# Joel Edgerton

I’m single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that’s me.

# Audrey Hepburn

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

# Calvin Coolidge

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

# Orson Welles

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.

# Rudyard Kipling

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

# Joe Biden

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

# Thomas Merton

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.

# John Quincy Adams

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

# Charles Bukowski

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

# Andre Maurois

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

# Albert Pike

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

To me, the sea is like a person – like a child that I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never

# Gertrude Ederle

feel alone when I’m out there.

# Robin Williams

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

# Edwin Markham

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

# Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

# Swami Vivekananda

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

# Marie Antoinette

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

# Lev Vygotsky

What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.

# Martin Luther

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

# Sandra Day O’Connor

We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

# Ken Wilber

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

# E. O. Wilson

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

# Robert A. Heinlein

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

# Friedrich Schiller

The strong man is strongest when alone.

# Tamara Taylor

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

# wickedness. Joseph Conrad

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every

# Molly Tarlov

Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you’re not really alone.

# Chris Cornell

And if you don’t believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

# Ferdinand Marcos

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

# Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

# Sylvester Stallone

There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

# Terry Goodkind

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

# Scipio Africanus

I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

# George Edward Moore

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

# Ellen G. White

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

# Robert Browning

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

# Deepak Chopra

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

# Aeschylus

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

# William H. McRaven

You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

# James Madison

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

# Jean de la Bruyere

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

# Dennis Brown

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

# Ayn Rand

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

# Olivia Wilde

I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

# Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

# Alan Moore

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

# James Anthony Froude

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

# Marilyn Monroe

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

# Edward Sapir

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

# Helen Keller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

# Henry David Thoreau

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone

# John Naisbitt

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

# Joseph Joubert

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

# Kangana Ranaut

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

# Paul Tillich

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

# Samuel Johnson

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

# Yoko Ono

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

# Isaac Newton

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

# Saint Teresa of Avila

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

# Henry Miller

An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

# Eleanor Roosevelt

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

# Jim Carrey

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

# John Wesley

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

# Janis Joplin

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

# William Albert Allard

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

# Paramahansa Yogananda

The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others.

# Jane Austen

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.

# Wallace Stevens

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

# Rahul Dravid

No dream is ever chased alone.

# Joyce Meyer

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

# Orison Swett Marden

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

# Lana Del Rey

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

# David Shuster

I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers… and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on ‘Ground Zero’ is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.

# Anthony Burgess

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

# ASAP Ferg

I was born alone, I’m gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I’m my own person, and no two people are the same.

# Paul Brunton

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

# Naomie Harris

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn’t blame Cambridge alone. I wasn’t ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

# Saint Ambrose

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

# Charles Stanley

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

# Ravi Zacharias

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.

# Phil McGraw

It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

# Lady Gaga

I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

# Friedrich Nietzsche

The doer alone learneth.

# Chantal Kreviazuk

I’m learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I’m doing.

# William Hazlitt

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

# Billy Connolly

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey… Doesn’t try it on.

# Alfred Lord Tennyson

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

# Richard Dawkins

Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

# Ellen G. White

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

# William Godwin

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

# James A. Garfield

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

# Jimmy Carter

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

# William Butler Yeats

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

# James Russell Lowell

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

# Paul Washer

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

# Dwayne Johnson

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

# George Gallup

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone – the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.

# Al Green

Before I knew it, I was singing, ‘I’m so tired of being alone,’ and that’s Al right there. From then, my attitude was, ‘Let Otis be Otis and James be James. I’m not going to emulate them anymore.’

# Sophia Loren

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

# E. Y. Harburg

Leave the atom alone.

# Clint Eastwood

I mean, I’ve always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else’s hair.

# Harold Bloom

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I’m told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

# James Garner

Ronald Reagan wasn’t qualified to be governor, let alone president.

# Kenko Yoshida

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations – such is a pleasure beyond compare.

# Napoleon Hill

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

# Franz Liszt

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

# Jefferson Davis

All we ask is to be let alone.

# St. Jerome

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

# Robert Plant

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

# Naveen Jain

Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

# Robert Browning

Finds progress, man’s distinctive mark alone, Not God’s, and not the beast’s; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

# Danny DeVito

I don’t know. I think it’s funny! I think it’s funny! I go, what? It’s so absurd. I’m alone.

# Liam Gallagher

She can’t even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

# Friedensreich Hundertwasser

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.

# Charles Spurgeon

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

# Samuel Johnson

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

# Patrick Henry

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power… the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

# John Dryden

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

# Marie Curie

In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.

# Mike Moreno

Just remember, you are not alone, in fact you are in a very common place with millions of others. We need to help each other and keep striving to reach our goals.

# Dennis Quaid

You don’t have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don’t have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.

# Chuck Palahniuk

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

# John Muir

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

# Luis Suarez

I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am learning that if you let it go, you feel better for it. Don’t keep it all bottled up inside; don’t take it all on alone.

# Henry B. Eyring

It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for forgiveness. There is someone you can forgive. There is someone you can thank. There is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it wherever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel.

# Thomas Babington Macaulay

The English Bible – a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

# William O. Douglas

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

# Thomas Love Peacock

Not drunk is he who from the floor – Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

# Henry David Thoreau

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

# Mario Lopez

Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.

# Booker T. Washington

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

# Charles Stanley

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They’ll stay faithful as long as it’s safe and doesn’t involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

# Bertolt Brecht

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

# Thomas Carlyle

Work alone is noble.

# Barbara Boxer

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I’m going to fight for you. I’m going to fight for what’s right. I’m going to fight to hold people accountable.

# Katya Zamolodchikova

Success doesn’t find you when you’re alone in your house.

# Jenova Chen

We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.

# Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

# David Walliams

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn’t that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that’s when your creativity is developed, when you’re young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

# Pericles

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

# Kendall Jenner

Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That’s tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.

# E. O. Wilson

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

# Franz Kafka

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

# Dave Davies

Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.

# Marilyn Monroe

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

# Mary MacLane

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

# Subcomandante Marcos

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

# Chuck Palahniuk

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that’s usually how you end up crying?

# Arthur Schopenhauer

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

# Dennis Prager

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

# Henry B. Eyring

We never need to feel that we are alone or unloved in the Lord’s service because we never are. We can feel the love of God. The Savior has promised angels on our left and our right to bear us up. And He always keeps His word.

# B. R. Ambedkar

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

# Janis Joplin

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

# Joyce Carol Oates

For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.

# Spike Lee

I’d like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.

# Arundhati Roy

Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don’t. My characters all live with me.

# Holly Holm

Aim high and don’t sell yourself short. Know that you’re capable. Understand that a lot of people battle with a lot of things – depression, body image or whatever else – so know that it’s not just you. You’re not alone.

# Thomas Bailey Aldrich

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

# Horace

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

# Richard Thompson

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

# Emanuel Steward

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening – corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.

# Harvey Mackay

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone’s help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

# Donella Meadows

Biodiversity can’t be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

# Marcel Proust

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

# Stefan Karl Stefansson

Time is the most valuable thing in life because it never comes back. And whether you spend it in the arms of a loved one or alone in a prison cell, life is what you make of it.

# Lena Horne

I’m not alone, I’m free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don’t have to be a symbol to anybody; I don’t have to be a first to anybody.

# Martha Beck

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

# Ginni Rometty

Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word ‘inclusion.’ And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It’s not men, it’s not women alone. Whether it’s geographic, it’s approach, it’s your style, it’s your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it’s your age – it is really broad.

# Elizabeth Bowen

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

# Don Rickles

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can’t please everyone. But when you’re different, you can last.

# Friedrich List

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

# Claudette Colvin

I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.

# Dorothea Dix

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

# Anne Lamott

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

# Adam Levine

I’m fiercely independent, but I’m also terrified of being alone.

# Herbert Hoover

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

# Edward Abbey

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.

# Theodor W. Adorno

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

# Blaise Pascal

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

# James Douglas

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

# Rudyard Kipling

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

# Rollo May

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

# Taylor Caldwell

Don’t let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

# Mary Baker Eddy

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

# Katelyn Ohashi

One habit that’s important for keeping me mentally healthy is having meaningful conversations with the people around me. That’s a habit that fuels my body and my mind. I also like to go to the beach and write, and I’ve been trying to focus on giving myself time to be alone.

# Demetri Martin

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. ‘Hey, man, what are you playing?’ ‘Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I’m performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!’

# Voltaire

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

# Chuck Palahniuk

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation – often elevated loneliness – to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

# Ziggy Marley

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

# Deborah Tannen

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

# Lyman Beecher

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

# Navjot Singh Sidhu

You can’t play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

# Sebastian Kurz

Doing the right thing is a decision, which in many cases means you stand alone.

# John Battelle

Building out a professional profile on LinkedIn certainly makes sense, and bolstering that CV with intelligent pieces of writing is also a great idea. But if you’re going to take the time to create content, you should also take the time to create a home for that content that is yours and yours alone.

# Quintilian

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

# Winona Ryder

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

# Orison Swett Marden

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

# Estelle

You can’t please everybody. I give up. I’m not trying to. I don’t care. Leave me alone with that.

# Quentin Tarantino

When I’m doing a movie, I’m not doing anything else. It’s all about the movie. I don’t have a wife. I don’t have a kid. Nothing can get in my way… I’ve made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.

# Hunter S. Thompson

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

# Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

# Edward Snowden

Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there’s a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I’m no longer alone.

# Ramakrishna

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

# Alex Honnold

I know that when I’m standing alone below a thousand-foot wall, looking up and considering a climb, my sponsors are the furthest thing from my mind. If I’m going to take risks, they are going to be for myself – not for any company.

# Comte de Lautreamont

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

# Alphonsus Liguori

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

# Bill Murray

We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that’s part of your obligation.

# Thornton Wilder

But there comes a moment in everybody’s life when he must decide whether he’ll live among the human beings or not – a fool among fools or a fool alone.

# Michael Collins

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

# Vikram Patel

There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business.

# Theodore Gericault

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

# Katherine Mansfield

It’s a terrible thing to be alone – yes it is – it is – but don’t lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath – as terrible as you like – but a mask.

# Knut Hamsun

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one’s coffee and fill one’s pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

# Peabo Bryson

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

# Karen Gillan

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

# Thomas Merton

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.

# Monica Bellucci

The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone – it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it’s also very interesting.

# Lindsey Stirling

Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different… in the end, it has made me the happiest.

# Zig Ziglar

It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

# P. G. Wodehouse

Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

# Alicia Keys

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want – I go to the bathroom.

# Joyce Meyer

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

# Thornton Wilder

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

# Virginia Woolf

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

# Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

# Douglas Southall Freeman

Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.

# Martin Luther

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

# Laura Bush

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.

# Jose Andres

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don’t get it.

# Amy Tan

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable – but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being ‘alone’: You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I’m talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.

# Maurice Maeterlinck

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

# Randy Pausch

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.

# John Berger

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.

# George Mikes

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

# Charles Wesley

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

# Dr. Seuss

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

# Marvin Sapp

Marvin’s Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

# M. F. Husain

I think you don’t do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don’t understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

# Joseph Smith, Jr.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

# Ellen G. White

Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.

# Sam Houston

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

# Benito Mussolini

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

# Ali ibn Abi Talib

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

# Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

# Lemmy

I’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.

# Walter Payton

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

# Paul Valery

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

# Octavio Paz

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall – that of our consciousness – between the world and ourselves.

# DeRay Mckesson

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

# Halle Berry

Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don’t see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

# Frank Ocean

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

# Toni Kroos

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.

# Blaise Pascal

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

# Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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.

# Gertrude Stein

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

# George Matthew Adams

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

# Che Guevara

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

# Jeremy Bentham

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

# Billy Joel

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

# Ernest Renan

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

# John Webster

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

# Amy Lowell

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

# Ellen G. White

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

# Chesty Puller

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

# Linda Lavin

Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment.

# Dan Crenshaw

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

# John Wesley

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

# Anne Frank

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

# Mark Goulston

Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.

# Henry Adams

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

# Thomas Jefferson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

# William Osler

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.

# Halle Berry

I’m done with men… I’m going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don’t think I’m made for marriage.

# Mahatma Gandhi

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

# Gillian Jacobs

We’re all alone in this world.

# Billy Idol

It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.

# Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.

# Greta Thunburg

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

# Amy Poehler

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We’ve been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It’s just like stand-up. It’s best when it’s just left alone. It doesn’t translate always on TV. It’s best live.

# William Shatner

I’ve been in that angst of loneliness, where you’re really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

# Sigmund Freud

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

# Lionel Shriver

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.

# Sophocles

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

# Anna Pavlova

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

# Ma Jian

I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It’s no fun to be in exile. I can’t even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I’ve found the sky of freedom above my head, I’ve lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.

# John F. Kennedy

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

# Octavio Paz

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

# Virginia Postrel

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.

# Alice Koller

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

# Jerry O’Connell

I’m the kind of guy who can’t keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

# Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

# Merritt Wever

It’s always nice to be thought of and asked to do anything, let alone something different.

# Hans Jonas

That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

# Andrew Gower

When you are playing somebody who did exist, and there is good source material on them, whether it is a biography or archives or experts, you would be stupid not to delve into them. But there is a point in the process where you leave the books alone, and instead, you focus on the script and creating your version.

# Whitney Houston

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

# John Hannah

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

# Mick Jagger

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

# William Alexander

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

# Britney Spears

I’m not at the point where I’d feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I’m the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone’s going to jump out and get me.

# Madelaine Petsch

The people who are bullying you, they’re insecure about who they are, and that’s why they’re bullying you. It never has to do with the person they’re bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they’re not alone.

# Andrea Bocelli

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It’s freedom.

# Rachel Platten

‘Stand By You’ is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren’t alone.

# Robin S. Sharma

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

# John Witherspoon

The kids of America, please get a damn job. Get out of the house, leave the refrigerator alone. Stop wearing my shoes. Leave my shirts alone, get a job. Spend your own money.

# Ben Folds

Now that I have found someone, I’m feeling more alone… than I ever have before.

# Pete Rose

Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: ‘There’s three ways you can treat a person. You can pat ’em on the butt, you can kick ’em in the butt, or you can leave ’em alone.’

# Henri Nouwen

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.

# Rene Descartes

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

# Marcel Proust

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

# Carl Jung

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

# George Canning

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

# Mickey Rourke

Sometimes, when a man is alone, that’s all you got is your dog.

# John Lydon

You gotta bear in mind, the youth – and this is just in Britain alone – have nowhere to go in the evenings. They’ve closed all the social centers. There’s not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.

# Confucius

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

# Henry Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

# Saint Ignatius

It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

# Johnny Carson

Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ‘Are your ready?’

# Terri Irwin

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

# Marilyn Monroe

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‘There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.’ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

# Jack Canfield

Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals – however mundane or lofty they may be.

# Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

# Robert Zemeckis

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

# Laurie Colwin

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.

# Saint Bernard

That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.

# Martin Garrix

I think Dutch people are very sober. I don’t know if it’s the right word. Like, you have the most famous person walk by some Dutch people, and they’re like, ‘Oh, hello.’ And they maybe take a photo, but most of the time, they’ll respect you and leave you alone. And if you go to some other countries they will literally mob you, go crazy.

# Nicolas Cage

I think I jump around more when I’m alone.

# Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

# Laurie Helgoe

The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It’s important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people’s love even when they’re not there in front of you.

# Louis L’Amour

No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

# Paracelsus

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

# Peter Abrahams

You can’t walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

# Thomas Babington Macaulay

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

# Joel Sternfeld

I loved the High Line when it was just mine, when I was the only person up there, and I had a private park in New York City. I had to make an appointment to see it… I’d walk around. I was all alone.

# John Locke

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

# Lonny Price

I think there is a price to being alone, and there is a price to being in a relationship. It all depends on which price you want to pay – but none of them are free.

# John Niven

The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds.

# Christopher McCandless

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom… No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

# Claudia Rankine

When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

# Jean Craighead George

Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories.

# Abraham Kuyper

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!’.

# Kat Graham

I don’t want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds – having never helped anyone. That’s not my path. That’s not what I care about. That’s not what excites me.

# David Grinspoon

Astrobiology is the science of life in the universe. It’s an attempt to scientifically deal with the question of whether or not we’re alone in the universe, looking at the past of life, the present of life, and the future of life. It’s an interdisciplinary study incorporating astronomy, biology, and the Earth sciences.

# John Muir

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

# Benjamin Franklin

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

# Valee

People say it’s a quiet flow, that it sounds like I’m in a library. That could have come from when I was living in my old place, a nice loft. I was the youngest person in the building, and I would be working alone on my music. I would get emails two or three times a month about ‘loud’ music, so I became quieter and quieter about making beats.

# Jean de la Bruyere

It’s motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

# Susan L. Taylor

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly – spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

# Elon Musk

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

# Elie Wiesel

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

# Richard Lovelace

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, – Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

# Joe Rogan

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

# Ricochet

I’ve been friends with a lot of the NXT competitors for years, but just walking into the Performance Center alone is intimidating.

# Agnes Macphail

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

# Jay Samit

Get your product into users’ hands as quickly as possible and incorporate the crowd’s feedback to iterate. Your customers will provide the data you need to chart the best course for your company and bury any competitor that goes it alone.

# Reinhard Bonnke

In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source.

# Lawrence M. Krauss

Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.

# Eric Hoffer

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

# Thomas Jefferson

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

# Martin Luther

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

# Carol W. Greider

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.

# Stephen Hawking

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C – not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

# Jon Krakauer

When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil’s Thumb alone. It was incredibly dangerous, and I did it because I thought that if I did something that hard and pulled it off, my life was gonna be transformed. And of course, nothing happened. But I get the search for purpose.

# John Berger

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

# Ennio Morricone

Everyone has to die. I’m not particularly scared about it. What really frightens me is that if I go before my wife, I will leave her alone, and vice versa. The ideal would be to die together.

# Rahul Dravid

I wasn’t the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.

# Gustav Klimt

Whoever wants to know something about me – as an artist which alone is significant – they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

# Claire Danes

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I’m really scared of being alone; because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman.

# Katherine Johnson

I was excited at something new, always liked something new, but give credit to everybody who helped. I didn’t do anything alone but try to go to the root of the question and succeeded there.

# Lata Mangeshkar

When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn’t think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.

# H. P. Lovecraft

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

# Mehmet Oz

In Turkey, you’re not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

# James E. Faust

Ever since Adam’s day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.

# O. HenryRead

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.

# Robert McFarlane

There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing.

# Mahesh Babu

When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn’t come out of my house because my films didn’t do well. I lock myself in for months. I don’t talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It’s never about myself or my career alone.

# Toussaint Louverture

It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.

# Mike Lee

We can’t give excessive, unfettered power to a president to act alone, to bind an entire country to a set of principles, a set of rules that the president, him or herself, makes.

# E. O. Wilson

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

# Tom Petty

I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

# John Updike

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

# George Armstrong Custer

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

# Francis Ford Coppola

I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I’m all alone where I’m not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I’m dead in the water.

# James Madison

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

# Sam Abell

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.

# Jules Verne

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

# Paul McCartney

It’s time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

# Dada Vaswani

People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.

# Earl Sweatshirt

People think being alone is a luxury, but it’s crucial: Whatever you’re not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

# Judy Garland

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

# K. D. Lang

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you’re essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

# Paloma Faith

It’s amazing living alone. I’m very lucky. It’s like a refuge.

# Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

# Richard Nelson Bolles

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone – many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

# Jennifer Hyman

In the early years of Rent the Runway, our challenge was twofold: getting investors to buy into our vision for how the world was changing and getting women to understand that renting was a viable – let alone a smarter – alternative to spending hundreds of dollars on dresses they would wear just once.

# Alice Walker

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

# Wendell Berry

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

# Retta

When I first started tweeting, I was just doing it because I was watching ‘Breaking Bad’ in my trailer and I was so scared by the assassinating cousins. And when people started responding to me, I realized it was like I wasn’t watching it alone.

# Jean-Luc Godard

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone… means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

# Ingrid Bergman

I have grown up alone. I’ve taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

# Bruce Feiler

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family’s positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

# Sukarno

Am I not peaceful? We want to be free – completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

# Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

# Steve Martin

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it’s easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin’ man and the loner.

# Dolly Parton

My nails are my rhythm section when I’m writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

# Queen Latifah

Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field – it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

# Thurgood Marshall

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

# Wallace Stevens

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

# Rodney Crowell

Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me seven years to get a sense of how to wean myself off the process and trickery of songwriting. You realize that giant metaphors work in songs because you have so few words. Standing alone on a page, they threaten to be overblown in a hurry.

# Kevin Parker

For me, it’s always been draining to be around people for too long because I’m naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.

# Steve Lacy

I’ve performed solo for 20 years now, but I don’t do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

# Freya Stark

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

# Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

# Jerry Orbach

‘Home Alone’ was a movie, not an alibi.

# Charles Munch

The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.

# Gloria Allred

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

# Jesus Christ

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

# Tim O’Brien

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we’re reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

# Jurgen Klopp

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

# Joyce Carol Oates

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my ‘farm chores’ – but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

# Louis D. Brandeis

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

# Steve Carell

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

# Alice Walker

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

# George W. Bush

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

# Cesare Pavese

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.

# John Burroughs

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

# Charles Spurgeon

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

# William Law

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

# Peter Fenn

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

# Thomas Heatherwick

You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It’s not purely about money. It’s about how we choose to value human experience.

# Steven Biko

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

# Veronica Roth

I really like the group tour better than going it alone. First of all, it kind of takes the pressure off a little. I’m not a naturally extroverted person. But I also like it because it brings in new fans. For example, someone who really loves Aprilynne Pike’s books might pick up mine and vice versa.

# Conrad Hall

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

# Andre Gide

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

# Arthur L. Herman

Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence – let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be ‘a Benedict Arnold’ is to be a traitor of the deepest dye – someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way.

# Jane Fonda

I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.

# Yayoi Kusama

Polka dots can’t stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

# David Whyte

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone – and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

# Kevin Rudd

By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.

# Alberto Giacometti

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

# Ellen Page

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

# Angelina Jolie

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

# Phil Anselmo

In my better sense of mind, I know that I’m far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me.

# Mao Zedong

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

# Robert Delaunay

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

# Kin Hubbard

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

# Edmond Rostand

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?

# George Gershwin

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won’t do the job. A man also needs technique.

# Katy Tur

I was on the campaign trail, covering Donald Trump for two years – and it’s really hard to do anything for yourself with a schedule like that. I didn’t have time to answer text messages from my friends or go to the gym, let alone get my nails done.

# James Dean

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.

# Max Muller

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

# Thomas Hardy

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

# Tracee Ellis Ross

I was watching the Nina Simone documentary alone in my room, and I said out loud to myself, ‘Why do we not know that this woman is beauty? She is beauty! Why did no one tell me this growing up? Why was her name not next to ‘beauty’ in the dictionary?’

# Albert Camus

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

# William Osler

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

# Karl Pilkington

People eat duck and you think, well, we’ve got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!

# Bernard Werber

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants’ civilization, you are part of the group; you don’t live for yourself alone.

# Kelela

No one is making extraordinary things alone. They might be alone in their bedroom while they’re recording or writing, but they didn’t actually conjure that thing out of nothing – without influence – without assistance – without anything.

# Future

That’s that Dungeon Family ethos: being able to reinvent yourself, stand out and stand alone. Having your own character and having your own image, no matter what they say about you. I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It’s something different.

# Jim Brown

There’s a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney. They seemed to have no compassion, and they were always alone.

# Matthew Gray Gubler

I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I’m serious! In ‘Bambi,’ the mother dies, but you don’t see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see ‘Bambi’ alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.

# Thomas Jefferson

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

# Swami Sivananda

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

# Beth Hart

If I love Etta James, it’s not just the voice, and it’s not just the song, but it’s the energy that connects me to her, so if she is strong, I can be strong, too, and if she is sad, I know I am not alone, or if she is joyous, I can connect with that joy.

# Demetri Martin

I think it’s interesting that ‘cologne’ rhymes with ‘alone.’

# Gong Yoo

I don’t know if this is because I’m a bit too old, but it is true that I’m getting insensible about romance recently. I’m very used to being alone now, and I don’t think that’s not half bad.

# Frank Abagnale

We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what’s to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern.

# Hope Solo

I like to read books and be alone; I’m not social butterfly person.

# Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

# George Muller

Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.

# Salma Hayek

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

# Neil deGrasse Tyson

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.

# John C. Maxwell

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

# Michel de Montaigne

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

# Lord Byron

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

# Elie Wiesel

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

# Maria Shriver

No matter who you are, what you’ve accomplished, what your financial situation is – when you’re dealing with a parent with Alzheimer’s, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can’t work, can’t live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don’t know what to expect.

# Anna Nicole Smith

Men don’t even ask me out. I can’t remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I’m talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

# James Fenton

Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.

# Jennifer Lopez

I’ve always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I’m most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It’s why we seek the limelight – so we’re not alone, were adored. We’re loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

# John Sweeney

Why should a company like Wal-Mart – who made $10 billion last year alone – be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?

# Barack Obama

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

# Brooke Shields

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

# Igor Stravinsky

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

# Johnny Cash

I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

# Frank Rich

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans’ reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

# Pat Nixon

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I’m silent. If I’m not talking, leave me alone.

# Slavoj Zizek

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

# Maya Angelou

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

# Chuck Palahniuk

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

# Heraclitus

Change alone is unchanging.

# William S. Burroughs

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

# Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I hope never to marry in this way; I wish to make my wife happy, but not to become rich by her means, so I will let things alone and enjoy my golden freedom till I am so well off that I can support both wife and children.

# Dion DiMucci

People were watching the TV set, and they said three rock-and-rollers died – Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, including the pilot. I walked out of the hotel. I got on the bus alone. Their clothes were hanging on the racks, their guitars on the seats.

# Alice Roberts

Autumn is much redder in North America and east Asia than it is in northern Europe, and this can’t be explained by temperature differences alone. These areas also have a greater proportion of ancient tree lineages surviving: trees have gone extinct at a higher rate in Europe compared with those other areas.

# Taylor Swift

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

# Ze Frank

I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type a question into Google and watch the question auto-fill. In that moment, we know someone else has asked that same question. The gift of realizing you’re not alone is incredibly powerful.

# Xavier Dolan

When I saw Bryan Singer’s ‘Usual Suspects,’ I knew how it was going to end because I’d seen ‘Scary Movie.’ Which is not the preferred order of things, but that’s how it is because my childhood was ‘Home Alone,’ ‘Matilda,’ ‘Batman Returns,’ ‘Jumanji,’ ‘Secret Garden,’ ‘Jack,’ ‘Mrs. Doubtfire,’ ‘Titanic.’ Only family films from the ’90s.

# Richard Rohr

We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me – especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and ‘religious’ countries.

# Moby

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

# Al Green

I said, ‘I’m a rock star. I can’t preach in nobody’s church. Are you crazy?’ Let alone buy one. Oh, I wound up buying one.

# Henry Rollins

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

# Adam DeVine

Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls’ agendas. So they’re definitely not coming after you.

# Amber Liu

I know when I was growing up, I was always lost and just thought I was alone and that I needed to find where I belonged.

# Octavia E. Butler

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you’re hurt, you’re really on your own. You’re alone, and there’s no one to help you.

# Jackie Kennedy

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President’s widow?

# Jello Biafra

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there’s the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there’s the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

# Jack Nicholson

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.

# Terrence Malick

It was in Austin that I had the idea for ‘Days of Heaven.’ I found myself alone for a summer in the town I had left as a high school student. There were those green, undulating hills, and this very beautiful river, the Colorado. The place is inspired and inspiring.

# Judith Martin

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn’t need to have the rest of the universities attached.

# Fiona Apple

When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.

# Martin Heidegger

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

# Aurora

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

# Deepika Padukone

I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.

# Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

By being friends with all, we are not alone.

# Terry Pratchett

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

# Herodotus

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

# John Cheever

I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss – you can’t do it alone.

# Jamila Woods

I’m creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you’re not alone, like you’re not an outsider. Art that is useful.

# Karan Patel

You cannot go far alone. You enjoy your journey better if you have people by your side.

# Oscar Levant

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

# Natalie Imbruglia

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you’re not alone in the world.

# Chief Joseph

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

# Claude Monet

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

# Sooraj Pancholi

I used to stay with my grandparents in Juhu from the beginning and my sister lived with my parents. They both died five years back and so, since the age of 16, I live alone with my four dogs.

# Alva Noto

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.

# Bruce Willis

I would say, ‘I’m alone, but I’m not lonely.’ But I was just kidding myself.

# Dan Rather

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won’t. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

# Giuseppe Verdi

I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

# Tim Murphy

Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives.

# Ivan Turgenev

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

# Jacqueline Woodson

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me – to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

# Emo Philips

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

# Tia Mowry

Exploring is one of my favorite things to do, but I don’t really want to be in a tour group. I like doing it alone or with whomever I’m traveling with.

# Brendan Behan

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

# Hank Aaron

The thing I like about baseball is that it’s one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it’s your mistake. If you hit a home run, it’s your home run.

# Abraham Lincoln

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

# Baruch Spinoza

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

# Tim Burton

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

# Tim Cook

If hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.

# Karin Slaughter

I’m extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It’s still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I’m touring.

# Alfred Nobel

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

# Margot Robbie

It’s almost impossible to get a movie all together when there are two main cast members, let alone an ensemble cast with everyone’s schedules. It’s crazy if it works out.

# Guillermo del Toro

I don’t think there is life beyond death. I don’t. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn’t do.

# Kourtney Kardashian

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

# Syd

I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone.

# Jean-Paul Sartre

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.

# Grace Slick

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.

# Jean de la Bruyere

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

# Paul Washer

I hope not in works. I hope not in ethics. I hope not in baptisms or church membership. I hope in Christ alone.

# Tom Kristensen

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

# Shawn Amos

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

# Colby Covington

My pace alone is unstoppable. No one can keep my pace.

# Ezra Miller

Artists walk alone.

# Mario Gotze

I get advice, but the final decision about my life is one I always take alone.

# Marie Curie

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.

# Erma Bombeck

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

# Leslie Jordan

I don’t know what the other celebrity’s lives are like but I lead a true celebrity life. I get pampered. I’m always alone.

# Sampha

When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there’s someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it’s the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

# AJ Lee

I am bipolar, and I am proud. And that is why I wanted to write a book. To shine a light on mental illness, to be vulnerable about the days I let it take control and paid dearly for it, and to tell anyone fighting a similar battle: You are not alone. You are not broken.

# Bernadette Peters

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

# Rudolf Steiner

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.

# Ban Ki-moon

The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

# Esha Gupta

I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don’t know what the life of a superstar is like.

# Celine Dion

Some people can’t stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I’m a regular talking machine. It’s all or nothing for me.

# Anna Held

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

# Chuck Norris

Getting kids into the kitchen preparing the food they and their families will eat results in them viewing food in an entirely new way. If given the right ingredients, that act alone can raise the standards of the quality of the food both they and their family eat.

# Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

# George Berkeley

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

# Paul Tillich

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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.

# Michelle Obama

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

# Benjamin N. Cardozo

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

# Tori Amos

If I was writing songs just for me I’d only play them in my living room, alone.

# Ramana Maharshi

If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

# Josephine Baker

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

# Audre Lorde

I can’t really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

# Tatjana Patitz

Sometimes I get lonely, but it’s nice to be alone.

# James Monroe

It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.

# Thomas Carlyle

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

# Tallulah Bankhead

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

# Shura

Some of the best songs are love songs. They’re things that we all go through, and when we’re going through it, we think that we’re the only person in the world going through that. Having that music there sort of reminds you that you’re not alone. It happens to me, too, as a music fan.

# Leonard Cohen

My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.

# Donovan Mitchell

I never expected to be in the NBA, to be here, let alone to have my own shoe in my second year.

# Pearl S. Buck

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

# Seth Shostak

We can never prove that we’re alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we’re not.

# Dorothy Day

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

# Jagmeet Singh

It’s no secret that there are people who would like to narrow our discussions on climate change to a debate about pipelines alone in an attempt to divide Canadians – to pit workers against environmentalists.

# Gabriel Iglesias

I never go perform somewhere alone. I’ve done that since day one. I’ve always taken other comics with me.

# Glennon Doyle Melton

One of the reasons we stay so alone in our lives is because we’re ashamed to talk about the hard stuff. It’s as simple as that. We’re all in pain in different ways, and we don’t get the help we need because we’re too ashamed to talk about the pain.

# Sophocles

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

# Charles Bukowski

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

# Tyler Oakley

Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search ‘coming out,’ and they’ll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story.

# Thomas Fuller

Better be alone than in bad company.

# Charles Lindbergh

To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.

# Yves Saint Laurent

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.

# Laurence Sterne

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

# Athanasius

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

# Sylvia Plath

If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.

# Sandra Day O’Connor

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

# Ridley Scott

It doesn’t matter how much faith you have or don’t have. I just don’t buy the idea that we’re alone. There’s got to be some form of life out there.

# Francis Maude

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

# Alain de Botton

I’m one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I’ve come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance – a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think.

# Ben Shapiro

The Obama administration has consistently refused to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli territory, let alone as the capital of Israel.

# Michelangelo

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

# Ken Ham

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.

# Mos Def

And remember don’t high post when you’re far from home, and high posting when you’re all alone.

# Henry Cavill

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

# Black Elk

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

# Jon Gruden

You want to take a charge from LeBron James coming down the lane with no helmet on – that’s dangerous. But you know what? Some people like to do that stuff. So leave them alone.

# Kendrick Lamar

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

# Jonathan Frid

I’m constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.

# Rosa Parks

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

# Thomas Carlyle

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

# Doris Roberts

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor’s Studio. She’d get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn’t leave her alone. She didn’t know where to hide.

# Pete Buttigieg

I do think, actually, one thing I noticed with Silicon Valley post-Trump is it kind of made them more politically aware, more aware that, like, business and philanthropy alone isn’t going to make the world a better place.

# Spike Milligan

The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, ‘A terrible beauty.’

# Ann Hood

Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I’d lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.

# Bill Viola

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It’s a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you’re in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.

# Charles Studd

David – the man after God’s own heart – was a man of war and a mighty man of valour. When all Israel were on the run, David faced Goliath – alone… with God – and he but a stripling, and well scolded, too, by his brother for having come to see the battle.

# Gabriel Byrne

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, ‘We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we’re not, we cling to.’

# Henry B. Eyring

We never need feel we are alone or unloved in the Lord’s service because we never are. The Savior has promised angels on our left and on our right to bear us up, and he always keeps his word.

# Marianne Williamson

The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that’s beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.

# Michael Paterniti

Albania is located sixty miles across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. It borders Montenegro and Kosovo to the north, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south. If you know nothing about ‘the Land of the Eagles,’ relax. You’re not alone.

# Ramana Maharshi

The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.

# Stacey Abrams

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

# Pope Francis

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

# Neri Oxman

In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this chance to use the glass to harness solar energy and allow the architecture to respond to the light and heat of the sun, to create photosynthesis and generate solar energy?

# Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

# John Olver

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million.

# Calvin Coolidge

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

# Yves Tanguy

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

# Reinhold Messner

I have a very different fear if I’m all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that there is nothing below me, no Sherpa, no tent, no rope.

# Meryl Streep

I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there’s that nice reverb, and the water’s drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

# Franz Kafka

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.

# Sukarno

If Marcos wants to aid Malaysia, that’s his business, but we will continue to crush Malaysia, even if we have to fight alone.

# James Franco

I still don’t like going to bed alone.

# Taboo

When you’re getting chemotherapy, you feel so alone, even when your family is there, or your friends are there with you. Sometimes it’s just you, feeling like you’re in a fight against something that you can’t control.

# James Prescott Joule

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm… that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

# Marie Helvin

My sister Naomi and I always wanted to go to Tahiti. We planned a fantastic holiday to visit several islands, but at the last moment, Naomi cancelled. It was the first time I’d holidayed alone, and it was absolutely the best.

# Pearl S. Buck

Love alone could waken love.

# William Temple

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

# John Mulaney

Going on the road for long stretches can seem daunting, and I certainly miss being home sometimes, but the chance to see so many different cities, let alone perform in them, is something I am really grateful for.

# Saint Ambrose

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

# Michael Learned

I got married at 17, had three kids by the time I was 24, and have never had much time alone. I never had time to develop hobbies. Now, if I have nothing to do, I just find myself cleaning drawers incessantly.

# Valtteri Bottas

I think Finns in general, we are quite calm and I think we’re mentally in general quite strong, and we don’t mind to be alone. We are lonely wolves, a lot of us.

# Werner Heisenberg

The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the quantum theory deals; it does not restrict, for example, the exactness of a position measurement alone or a velocity measurement alone.

# Noam Chomsky

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

# Neil deGrasse Tyson

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone.

# Ryan Reynolds

I firmly believe that you can’t manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.

# David Benioff

‘Troy’ is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not ‘The Iliad’ alone. ‘The Iliad’ begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.

# John Schneider

People have come to me for my opinion since ‘October Baby.’ But, hey, look, I’m an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that’s making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I’m not talking about politics. I’m just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

# Buddha

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

# Thomas Francis Meagher

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

# Joe Bastianich

No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don’t care if it’s a simple salad or Beef Wellington. A quality product stands alone and won’t need any dressing up.

# John Irving

And I find – I’m 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn’t diminished any. That’s the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

# Ellen G. White

Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.

# Meghan O’Rourke

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

# Mark Fuhrman

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.

# Eddie Van Halen

I’m not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I’m not a rock star. I’m not in it for the fame, I’m in it because I like to play.

# Jay-Z

Obama provides hope. Whether he does anything, the hope that he provides for a nation and outside of America is enough. Just being who he is. You’re the first black president. If he speaks on any issue or anything, he should be left alone.

# James Madison

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

# Ginnifer Goodwin

I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we’re only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet.

# Paracelsus

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

# Rafael Nadal

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

# Caroline Knapp

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you’re destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

# Estelle

I have my family; I’m never alone.

# John Bardeen

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

# Mark Skousen

One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.

# Tom Brady

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

# Stendhal

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

# Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

# Annie Dillard

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

# Matt Haig

Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don’t just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world – or a life – without them.

# Henri Nouwen

People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

# Golda Meir

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

# John Kenneth Galbraith

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

# Horace Mann

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

# Allison Williams

One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I’ll do it alone in my apartment. You can’t have a bad day after that.

# Tim Wise

For people of color – especially African Americans – the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware.

# Kenya Barris

When I was growing up, I never saw couples fight on the family sitcoms I loved to watch. Subsequently, when tough times arose in my own relationship, I wasn’t prepared and felt so isolated and alone. Marital issues weren’t a part of the narrative that television told me was a ‘working relationship.’

# Arianna Huffington

Increasingly, staying in the middle class – let alone aspiring to become middle class – is becoming a game of chance.

# Tom Cotton

The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unfortunate fact: For the vast majority of crimes, a perpetrator is never identified or arrested, let alone prosecuted, convicted and jailed.

# Sherry Turkle

If we don’t know how to be alone, we’ll only know how to be lonely.

# Josh Zuckerman

I secretly enjoy being alone – hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

# Charles Evers

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

# H. P. Lovecraft

A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.

# Octavia E. Butler

When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time – the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.

# Bill Hader

‘SNL’ is really hard to do when you’re single and living alone. And then it’s pretty tough when you’re married, because you don’t see your spouse.

# Arthur C. Clarke

Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

# Deborah Joy Winans

‘Greenleaf’ is nothing like ‘Empire.’ I think ‘Empire’ stands alone in what they are doing. It’s a wonderful show. The only thing that is similar though is that they are black families – the shows in it of themselves have very different dynamics.

# Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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.

# Eva Gabor

I’m a workaholic. Before long I’m traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

# Vivienne Westwood

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

# David Foster Wallace

This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.

# Paul Cezanne

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

# Montesquieu

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

# Jerry Falwell

I’m at work by 8 or 8:30, and when I get home every night, my wife and I walk around the lawn. We have dinner together, and then we spend most of our evenings alone.

# Arundhati Roy

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it’s not about being an individual or being ambitious.

# Yehuda Berg

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

# Michael Cera

I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone… just like everybody else.

# John Gregory Dunne

I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.

# Arthur Laffer

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I’ve never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I’ve never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

# Ry Cooder

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn’t enough. Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes.

# Justin Timberlake

The best part about being with a group is that you don’t have to do everything alone. You’re with your friends.

# Mickey Rivers

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.

# Thomas Wolfe

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

# John Oldham

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

# Walter Annenberg

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

# Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

# Lyall Watson

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.

# Ernest Lawrence

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

# Tom Perez

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty – simple as that. Too many jobs don’t pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

# Tony Bellew

I just want to be left alone.

# John Hull

We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.

# Elias Koteas

I can’t stand to watch anything that I’m in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I’m in. It’s abusive.

# Wayne Brady

I like to be left alone when I’m not working.

# Millicent Simmonds

If you’re disabled or different from what general society deems normal, it’s fine. There will always be people who won’t accept you, but there are others you can find who will. You’re never alone.

# Madelaine Petsch

Knowing that you’re not alone, and that people genuinely care, is really important.

# Dev Anand

It’s an institution that was born with my brother Chetan and me. I did it for him. I was becoming a big star in the late 1940s, and he needed a company to make films. So when he left Navketan, I brought in Goldie, and when Goldie left, I carried on alone. No book on Indian cinema is complete without mention of Navketan.

# Mani Ratnam

Filmmaking is not a one man show. It is not like I’m thinking something and they are expressing it. I try to pull the actor in and together we try to get the expression. It is not my thinking alone, it is our thinking. The actor also becomes a part of the thought process.

# Margaret Sanger

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

# Josie Maran

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

# Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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.

# Jonathan Van Ness

As a kid growing up, I really hated being alone. I was always that kid that was like, ‘Do you want to hang out? Let’s go to the mall. Let’s go to the movies. Let’s go to the park.’ I would call people and call people and call people. If I was alone when I wasn’t at school, then there was something wrong.

# Bob McNair

I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn’t do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn’t do it. You have to be properly capitalized.

# George Washington Carver

No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless. Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.

# Anthony de Mello

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

# Chris Cornell

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

# Steve Prefontaine

For me, running against the Poles and Czechs would be like running against high school kids. And I hate all this gung-ho, run-for-the-red-white-and-blue attitude that the AAU spouts. If that’s important to some people, fine, more power to ’em. But, damn it, I wish they’d leave me alone to do what I want to do – run against the best.

# Ze Frank

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

# Leah Busque

Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.

# Mary Oliver

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

# Iggy Azalea

I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online.

# Richard Branson

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.

# K. D. Lang

Life is so impermanent that it’s not about somebody else or things around me, it’s about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

# Jacob Bronowski

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

# Michael Hastings

In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau.

# Orison Swett Marden

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

# Daniel Lubetzky

Unless we can join forces and recognize each other’s humanity, how can we do business together, let alone make progress on the increasingly complex and difficult problems in society?

# Ernie Pyle

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

# Peter Bergen

Trump’s pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hungary, although he is far from alone in taking such positions in much of today’s Republican Party.

# John Varvatos

The music alone wasn’t enough. It was great, but when an artist had an amazing look – like the MC5, or the Stooges, or Alice Cooper – you really got sucked in. The wardrobe was so important. At a show, you were engrossed in the music, but you were also engrossed in everything from the haircuts to what they were wearing.

# R. Buckminster Fuller

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

# Leonard Peltier

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people’s rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

# Philip Zimbardo

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

# Travis Fimmel

I eat with my hands when I am home alone!

# Linda Colley

It was hardly their own shining abilities alone that allowed a son, two grandsons, and a son-in-law of Winston Churchill to make their way into parliament.

# Subcomandante Marcos

The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn’t stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn’t walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies.

# Oscar Isaac

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.

# Molly Tarlov

You have to understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether or not you can see it. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know that you’re not alone.

# Robert Mugabe

I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone. We say no to whites owning our land, and they should go… They can own companies and apartments… but not the soil. It is ours, and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States.

# Wayne Dyer

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‘big dharma’ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

# Georges Cuvier

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

# Jules Verne

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.

# Xavi

Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can’t ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don’t ever want to play anywhere else.

# Frank Drake

While NASA talks about ‘Are we alone?’ as a number one question, they are putting zero money into searching for intelligent life. There’s a big disconnect there.

# Stephen Hawking

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

# Dennis Prager

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything – every natural and physical law – is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

# Aaron Sorkin

Not all paintings are abstract; they’re not all Jackson Pollock. There’s value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

# Halsey

My EP, ‘Room 93,’ was all about isolation – it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

# Chris McCandless. Christopher McCandless

I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you,

# Ana Ivanovic

I like to be alone and listen to music. Every match I play, I have a tune in my head over and over. It might only be a few words or a small piece of the tune, but it can drive you mad.

# Erich Maria Remarque

A hospital alone shows what war is.

# Jeanette Winterson

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

# Maggie Rogers

I spend a lot of time reading and try to make sure that I can get a little bit of alone time every day.

# Jazz Jennings

I’m open, and I’m out there, but I also enjoy being alone, relaxing.

# Paul Tillich

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

# Jason David Frank

I try to motivate people and inspire them, to let them know that they’re not alone.

# Sheri L. Dew

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

# Hasan Minhaj

If it’s just me on stage telling stories for, like, an hour, that’s great. That’s fine. But like a sandcastle on the beach, it gets washed away at night. It’s so much more powerful if we can all share our narratives and doorstep moments and make us feel a little less alone. I’m just trying to use social media and new media as a way to capture that.

# Asha Bhosle

Most of my colleagues have been insulated in Indian music alone – they did not think of the world beyond what they knew – but I always did and still do.

# Mitt Romney

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

# Taylor Swift

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

# John Zorn

I don’t ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn’t work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who’s playing.

# James Baldwin

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

# Zubin Mehta

My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

# Kailash Kher

My real guru are my experiences in life – the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

# Toni Morrison

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

# Gael Garcia Bernal

Life certainly points it out to you – ‘you can go this way or the other way.’ You have to decide and it’s a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you’re living in the best place, but you’re letting the place where you should live alone?

# Mark Goulston

Feeling alone makes negative feelings worse. When you feel alone, frustration quickly can become anger, fear quickly can become panic.

# Luis Suarez

If you don’t speak Spanish, then don’t accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.

# Lars Peter Hansen

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn’t get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

# Awkwafina

I legitimately wanted to know if Mayor Bloomberg was going to ban large margaritas that I cry over while on a date alone at Dallas BBQ as a part of his controversial soda ban.

# Martin Jacques

The world is fortunate – for the time being, at least – that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America’s decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion, let alone flexing its muscles.

# Adriana Lima

I’m a teenager, but I’m independent – I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

# Nicolas Cage

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people’s minds. That’s pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

# Teju Cole

To read Transtromer – the best times are at night, in silence, and alone – is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.

# Lee Atwater

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it’s only you. To an extent, you’re all alone.

# Lil Yachty

I hate being alone. That’s why I like being with my friends: we’ve got energy; we’re social as hell.

# Ma Jun

China’s environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.

# Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

# Emre Can

When we lose the ball, we look to win it back as soon as possible. But you can’t do it alone; you have to do it all together.

# Don DeLillo

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

# H. P. Lovecraft

It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.

# Jose Feliciano

God did not want me to be a blind beggar on the street, alone and bitter. He gave me music, first to be my companion and then to be my salvation.

# Peter Handke

We behave as if being alone were a problem.

# Maria Mitchell

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

# Adlai Stevenson I

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

# Anne Bronte

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

# Henry S. Haskins

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

# Mitski

I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.

# Brendan Behan

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

# Kate McKinnon

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.

# Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

# Mandy Moore

I’ve always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn’t just about doing cardio, it’s also when I can get my ‘me time’ to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.

# Irving Penn

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

# SZA

Every day I grapple between ‘I’m going to get married’ and ‘I’m going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.’

# Michel Onfray

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

# Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

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

# Oprah Winfrey

You alone are enough.

# James Lafferty

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

# Sheikh Hasina

It is impossible for Bangladesh alone to take action against the rising sea level, as it has been a cumulative effect of global emission in which Bangladesh does not have any role. It is the responsibility of global community to address this issue as urgently as possible.

# Kevin DeYoung

At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ’s, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.

# Mark Ruffalo

I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They’re very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor.

# Peter O’Toole

I’m the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

# Steve-O

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, ‘Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.’ And that’s just a bad reason to get sober. You can’t get sober for anybody’s benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.

# Margaret Sanger

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers – and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

# Chris Hemsworth

I’m not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

# Banks

A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected – so it’s liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it’s amazing when other people don’t feel alone because they hear it.

# Alexander Pope

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

# David Harbour

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I’m looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don’t have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they’re not monsters.

# Thomas Hobbes

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

# Alana Stewart

I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won’t feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.

# Leighton Meester

I’m so accustomed to being alone.

When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine. –John Piper

# Rachel Hollis

I can’t even count the number of times I’ve obliterated my diet with a binge session. One second, I’m floating along just fine, four days into a successful low-carb lifestyle. The next? I’m standing alone in a dark kitchen, eating a sleeve of Ritz crackers and cream cheese with a spoon.

# Brie Larson

I wasn’t perfect and didn’t have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.

# Disha Patani

I like dancing but not in crowded clubs. I would rather dance alone than go to a club.

# John Spratt

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.

# Amber Liu

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.

# Martin Scorsese

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It’s a cacophony, it’s like a madness I think that’s been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

# Ruskin Bond

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.

# Jerome K. Jerome

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

# Natalie Wood

I couldn’t even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

# Chief Seattle

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.

# David Cameron

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain’s success – so for me there’s no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

# F. Sionil Jose

To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.

# Oliver Goldsmith

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

# Matthew Desmond

Tenants don’t have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they’re either facing their landlord – or his or her attorney – alone, or they just don’t show up. That reflects a severe power imbalance.

# Joe Rogan

We’re constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We’re finding it where we didn’t think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We’re finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we’re having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what’s possible on this planet alone.

# Adam Braun

Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one ‘silver bullet’ that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

# Charlotte Whitton

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

# Sextus Propertius

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

# J. C. Ryle

All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved.

# Orville Redenbacher

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

# George Formby

Now everybody’s got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It’s no one elses’ business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.

# Stephen Hawking

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

# Michelangelo

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

# David Hume

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

# Joe Walsh

I looked at Willie Nelson and Farm Aid as a role model; they do it every year, and it draws people together, and drawing people together where they realize they’re not alone, to me, is strategic in healing.

# Benny Blanco

I don’t want to make music alone in a dark studio and make me feel awful and depressed. I want to make music and feel happy and get to share it with people.

# Anton Chekhov

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

# Wayne Dyer

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

# P. J. O’Rourke

I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody’s guts.

# Ken Venturi

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

# Hilaire Belloc

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

# Ludwig Goransson

Needless to say, when I work on a film, it’s mostly just me alone in my room just waiting to present the music to the director – and either he likes it or not.

# Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

# Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

# Madeleine Albright

As strong as the United States is, we can’t deal with terrorism alone.

# Gilbert K. Chesterton

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

# Kay Redfield Jamison

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both.

# John Lasseter

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

# Pink

I sing my life. It’s like I’m having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they’re there for that – whether it’s to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

# Joss Whedon

I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren’t allowed to make a sound.

# Juice Wrld

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they’re not alone in going through the things that they go through.

# Hannah Fry

I certainly think there are some skills we’ll lose as we hand things over to automation. I can barely remember my own phone number now, let alone the long list of numbers I used to know, and my handwriting has completely gone to pot.

# Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

# John Burnside

The animal encounter poem is now so distinct a genre that it would be possible to create a full-length anthology from deer encounter poems alone, and many varieties of experience would emerge from such an exercise.

# Cindy Williams

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

# Pamela Stephenson

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

# Jacques Chirac

One can go to war alone, but you can’t build peace alone.

# David Ricardo

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

# Lily Tomlin

We’re all in this alone.

# Marilyn Monroe

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

# Maya Angelou

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

# Daisaku Ikeda

No one should be left to suffer alone.

# Alisson

I am more mature to, so I deal better with the mistakes than the many times when I locked myself away and wanted to be alone.

# Alisson

I am more mature today, so I deal better with the mistakes than the many times when I locked myself away and wanted to be alone.

# Arvind Kejriwal

We, alone, can’t change the country. We should do it together.

# Aung San Suu Kyi

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

# Sheryl Sandber

We leave people alone when they need us most.

# Mohammad bin Salman

We have many opportunities in mining: we have more than 6% of world reserves of uranium. We have many unutilised assets. We have four million square metres in Mecca alone of unutilised state-owned lands.

# Damien Chazelle

There’s something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you’re alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.

# Princess Anne

From a conservation issue alone, you’d have to say there are too many badgers. A bigger growth in the badger population is not good for the balance of conservation anyway.

# Mike Nichols

The thing is, as a film director, you’re essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.