99 Quotes About Being Alone

1.  Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. Elizabeth Bowen
2. The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone. James Baldwin
3. The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. Thomas B. Macaulay
4. I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. Joel Edgerton
5. Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. Alfred North Whitehead
6. 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
7. A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality. Yoko Ono
8. The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical. Henry George
9. Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. Charles Stanley
10. Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up. John C. Maxwell
11. Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. Martin Scorsese
12. I have my best ideas when I am alone. Leona Lewis
13. An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. Henry Miller
14. Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. John Dryden
15. I would point out that I'm an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered another career because I wouldn't have been alone in my room, making up other characters for myself. I definitely had growing pains. The popular kids didn't want anything to do with the girl who was starting the drama club. Ginnifer Goodwin
16. It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective. A. N. Wilson
17. When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
18. To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. Benjamin Franklin
19. 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. Charles Caleb Colton
20. I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom. Jeanne Moreau
21. Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences. Anna Held
22. I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds. Jodi Picoult
23. We are rarely proud when we are alone. Voltaire
24. There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. Jean-Paul Sartre
25. I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. Scipio Africanus
26. Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. Booker T. Washington
27. Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. Pericles
28. It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone. Joaquin Phoenix
29. One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. Edward Abbey
30. 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. Laura Bush
31. A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity. Jeremy Taylor
32. Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington
33. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. Elizabeth Bowen
34. Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. Horace Mann
35. 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
36. I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me. Britney Spears
37. There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. Henry David Thoreau
38. Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. Friedrich Nietzsche
39. Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. Louis Aragon
40. Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge. Muhammad Iqbal
41. I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. Paul Cezanne
42. A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it. Glenn Beck
43. 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. Mehmet Oz
44. With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. Mike Myers
45. When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR. Mikhail Baryshnikov
46. Alone we can do so little together we can do so much. Helen Keller
47. When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument. Zsa Zsa Gabor
48. Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs. Patti Stanger
49. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
50. We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. Jerome K. Jerome
51. A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. James Madison
52. True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. Theodor Adorno
53. What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. Ellen Burstyn
54. Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. Henry Rollins
55. 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
56. 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
57. You only grow when you are alone. Paul Newman
58. 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
59. Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. Elbert Hubbard
60. When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman. Alanis Morissette
61. Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers. Black Elk
62. Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. Carl Jung
63. 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
64. Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone. Winona Ryder
65. No one should be left to suffer alone. Daisaku Ikeda
66. Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying. Martin Luther
67. Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now. Fiona Apple
68. People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown. Vaslav Nijinsky
69. 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. Marilyn Monroe
70. The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. Albert Camus
71. We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. Charles Stanley
72. In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. Thomas Wolfe
73. If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. Anne Bronte
74. Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
75. By all means use some time to be alone. Edward Young
76. I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
77. One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. Thomas Jefferson
78. All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. Gilbert K. Chesterton
79. I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone. Peter O'Toole
80. Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want. Gustav Klimt
81. As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. Quintilian
82. 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. Alanis Morissette
83. Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. Robert Louis Stevenson
84. It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. Jean de la Bruyere
85. If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? Judy Garland
86. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge
87. We're all in this alone. Lily Tomlin
88. I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone. Audrey Hepburn
89. I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. Golda Meir
90. There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat. Brandy Norwood
91. Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has. Sandra Day O'Connor
92. 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 everything I do. Robert A. Heinlein
93. 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. Leo Tolstoy
94. This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
95. I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone. Gerald R. Ford
96. Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses. Thomas Frank
97. Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone. Arnold Rothstein
98. Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq. Norman Schwarzkopf
99. I'm so accustomed to being alone. Leighton Meester