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Quotations on the topic of ‘alone’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. – Charles Wesley
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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington
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No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. – Henry David Thoreau
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Blood alone moves the wheels of history. – Martin Luther
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. – Albert Camus
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. – Voltaire
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. – Arthur Schopenhauer
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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. – Robert Frost
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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. – Erma Bombeck
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. – Andre Maurois
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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. – Sophia Loren
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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. – Charles Spurgeon
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. – Napoleon Hill
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Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. – Coco Chanel
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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. – Ferdinand Marcos
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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. – Marilyn Monroe
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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. – John F. Kennedy
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To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. – Benjamin Franklin
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. – Booker T. Washington
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. – Confucius
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An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. – Henry Miller
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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. – Alice Koller
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. – Ayn Rand
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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. – Mahatma Gandhi
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. – Thomas Merton
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I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. – Cyrano de Bergerac
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pike
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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…
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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. – Thomas Jefferson
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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. – Anne Frank
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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. – George Edward…
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. – John Quincy Adams
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. – Eleanor Roosevelt
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. – Helen Keller
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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. – Audrey Hepburn
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When the people you love are gone, you’re alone. – Keanu Reeves
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You can’t fake it when you’re alone with God, you know. – Jim Bakker
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Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier
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When I’m alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument. – Zsa Zsa Gabor
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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. – Jules Renard
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I’m single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that’s me. – Joel Edgerton
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When everything is lonely I can be my best friend. – Conor Oberst
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A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable. – Eileen Caddy
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I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone. – Cathy Freeman
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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. – Orson Welles
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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. – Swami Vivekananda
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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. – Frida Kahlo
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As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone. – Sienna Miller
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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. – Gene Simmons
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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. – Mortimer Adler
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. – Boethius
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. – Octavio Paz
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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? – Charles Lindbergh
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Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone. – Arnold Rothstein
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. – Elizabeth I
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If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. – Maxwell Maltz
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Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight. – Roy Orbison
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. – Thomas Browne
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The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth. – Robert Anton Wilson
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. – Doug Coupland
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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. – Yousuf Karsh
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Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. – Mason Cooley
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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. – Dido Armstrong
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The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again. – Nora Ephron
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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. – Hermann Hesse
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. – Tecumseh
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Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. – Robert M. Pirsig
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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. – Anne Hathaway
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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. – Charlie Chaplin
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. – Tennessee Williams
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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
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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. – B. R. Ambedkar
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What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. – Ellen Burstyn
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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. – Kurt Vonnegut
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It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. – Albert Einstein
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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. – Chanakya
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne Dyer
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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. – Maya Angelou
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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. – George Carlin
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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. – Abdul Kalam
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