Alone Quotes

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

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

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

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Never having alone time is real tough on people.

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

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.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

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

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.

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.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

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

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.

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

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.

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

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.

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go.

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

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

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned alone to my home in Missouri.

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.