Top 100 Alone Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best alone quotes ever written, picked out of the full alone archive on QuoteForever. You will find James Madison, Jean De La Bruyere, Martin Luther and Mary Baker Eddy among them.

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1

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

2

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

3

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.

4

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

5

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

6

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

7

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

8

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

9

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.

10

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

11

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

12

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.

13

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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.

22

The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.

23

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

24

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.

25

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

26

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.

27

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

28

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

29

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

30

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.

31

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.

32

Change alone is unchanging.

33

Solitude is independence.

34

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.

35

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

36

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.

37

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?

38

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.

39

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

40

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

41

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.

42

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.

43

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.

44

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

45

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

46

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

47

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

48

All we ask is to be let alone.

49

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

50

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.

51

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

52

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

53

The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.

54

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.

55

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.

56

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.

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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.

61

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.

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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.

66

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.

67

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.

68

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

69

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.

70

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

71

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

72

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

73

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

74

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

75

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

76

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

77

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.

78

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.

79

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

80

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

81

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.

82

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.

83

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

84

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

85

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

86

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

87

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

88

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

89

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.

90

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.

91

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.

92

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

93

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.

94

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.

95

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

96

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.

97

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

98

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.

99

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

100

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

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