99 Alone Quotes

1.  It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. Jean de la Bruyere
2. Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. Ayn Rand
3. After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone. Francesca Annis
4. I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator. Emo Philips
5. Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. Adlai E. Stevenson
6. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Thomas Jefferson
7. For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad. Jeff Bridges
8. As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone. Sienna Miller
9. The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. Pope John XXIII
10. 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
11. If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre
12. I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another. Richard Pryor
13. 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
14. 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
15. I don't like being in houses alone. Martin Scorsese
16. Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. Plato
17. All we ask is to be let alone. Jefferson Davis
18. But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. Dan Rather
19. If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Thurgood Marshall
20. People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown. Vaslav Nijinsky
21. Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? Charles Lindbergh
22. 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
23. 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
24. I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone. Christina Ricci
25. I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing. Jim Carrey
26. People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. Henry James
27. I think I jump around more when I'm alone. Nicolas Cage
28. But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone. Nancy Kerrigan
29. 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
30. I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting. Eva Gabor
31. 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
32. 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? Jackie Kennedy
33. Virtue alone has majesty in death. Edward Young
34. No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. Theodor Adorno
35. 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
36. 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
37. I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. Maria Mitchell
38. Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. Wallace Stevens
39. Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. Sam Abell
40. Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party. Dylan Thomas
41. Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire. Quintilian
42. The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. Richard Branson
43. Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. Quintilian
44. Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. Jessamyn West
45. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. Wayne Dyer
46. 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. Clint Eastwood
47. Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created. Jacob Bronowski
48. Let me alone, and go in search of someone else. Ali ibn Abi Talib
49. Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. Tecumseh
50. Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. Andrew Eldritch
51. One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. Edward Abbey
52. I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script. Conrad Hall
53. There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right. Elizabeth Gilbert
54. I'm so accustomed to being alone. Leighton Meester
55. Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Joseph Conrad
56. Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. Paul Tournier
57. Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. Rosa Parks
58. When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Whitney Houston
59. 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
60. To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. Benjamin Franklin
61. Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. Thomas Carlyle
62. We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Patrick Henry
63. Better be alone than in bad company. Thomas Fuller
64. 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
65. Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. Nigel Farage
66. 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
67. I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place. Laura Linney
68. I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today. Ken Wilber
69. The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not. Glenn Beck
70. I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him. Emma Roberts
71. Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out. Marc Newson
72. At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people. Jeffrey Kluger
73. 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
74. The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything. Vivienne Westwood
75. That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. John Berger
76. I am alone I am always alone no matter what. Marilyn Monroe
77. Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions. Sandra Day O'Connor
78. You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. Peter Abrahams
79. One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. Thomas Jefferson
80. Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself. Berenice Abbott
81. 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
82. Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. W. Clement Stone
83. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
84. The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. Stendhal
85. I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. Lord Byron
86. Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. Jane Austen
87. I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone. Peter O'Toole
88. Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. Friedrich Nietzsche
89. 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. Benito Mussolini
90. 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
91. I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want. Sergei Bubka
92. I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman. Claire Danes
93. We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. Jules Verne
94. You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others. Steve Lacy
95. Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. Thomas Love Peacock
96. 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
97. The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. Thomas Hobbes
98. I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse. Jane Smiley
99. It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. Salvador Dali