To Be Alone Quotes

You're not alone, are you? Because I'm here

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

I had a fear of being alone.

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

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.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

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

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

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.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Love comes quietly... but you know when it is there because suddenly... you are not alone anymore... and there is no sadness in you.

We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.

Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

All alone by the telephone.

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

If we knew we were not alone in the universe it would have a very, very deep impact on our worldview, on our understanding of our place in the universe.

Give me a treat, or leave me alone. It's Monday.

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

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

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

Love alone is credible.

Don't let ignorance blind you. Open your eyes, heart and your mind. And if you're feeling alone, know that the world can be a lonely place, but it would be lonelier without you in it.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

Never having alone time is real tough on people.

Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

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.

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

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

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.