To Be Alone Quotes

I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)

Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

Im always happy when Im left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.

Sociopaths are not afraid of very much, except for physical harm and dying - really primitive, basic kinds of fears. The problem with being alone for a sociopath is boredom.

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.

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.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

I enjoy my time alone.

You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.

Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.

If you can only be happy with other people - and not alone - you are not a very happy person

The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.

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.'

If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone.

The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

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

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

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

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans.

Love alone could waken love.

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

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

Our correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once opened, a connection is made. We are not alone in the world.

There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.

A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.