99 Lonely Quotes

1.  All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! Robert Musil
2. Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. Lord Byron
3. 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
4. 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
5. Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. Daniel Day-Lewis
6. It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other. Philip Seymour Hoffman
7. I think I jump around more when I'm alone. Nicolas Cage
8. 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
9. All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. Jean de la Bruyere
10. Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. Robert Louis Stevenson
11. Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. Paul Tillich
12. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. Confucius
13. The strong man is strongest when alone. Friedrich Schiller
14. The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone. Orison Swett Marden
15. When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green. Roald Dahl
16. On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. Janis Joplin
17. 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
18. Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone. Abu Bakar Bashir
19. I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. Frida Kahlo
20. 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
21. The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China. Jennifer Granholm
22. Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. Pericles
23. Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me. Larry Wilcox
24. The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want. Justin Timberlake
25. With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. Mike Myers
26. Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. Charlie Chaplin
27. I need, absolutely, to be alone. Jeanne Moreau
28. 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
29. Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone. Georg Solti
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone. Madeleine Albright
34. The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth. Robert Anton Wilson
35. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Thomas Jefferson
36. Remember we're all in this alone. Lily Tomlin
37. I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. Rainer Maria Rilke
38. I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone. Christina Ricci
39. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power. Alfred Lord Tennyson
40. 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
41. Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you. John Muir
42. Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. Paul Brunton
43. Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone. Deepak Chopra
44. Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone. Laurence J. Peter
45. 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
46. The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. Charles Babbage
47. Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. Sigmund Freud
48. This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. Hubert H. Humphrey
49. I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important. Shay Mitchell
50. Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. Eleanor Roosevelt
51. In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. Jeff Goodell
52. 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. Jaron Lanier
53. Testing oneself is best when done alone. Jimmy Carter
54. Work alone will efface the footsteps of work. James Whistler
55. 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
56. 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
57. 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
58. I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness. Bell Hooks
59. One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. Edward Abbey
60. 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
61. Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created. Jacob Bronowski
62. Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich
63. Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight. Roy Orbison
64. 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
65. I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone. Audrey Hepburn
66. 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
67. I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does. Diablo Cody
68. 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
69. 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
70. What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. Ellen Burstyn
71. And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. Chris Cornell
72. The writer is all alone. V. S. Naipaul
73. 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
74. Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past. Jonathan Sacks
75. I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. John Updike
76. 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
77. Let your mind alone, and see what happens. Virgil Thomson
78. I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place. Laura Linney
79. 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. Leonardo DiCaprio
80. As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money. Julie Burchill
81. 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
82. I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him. Emma Roberts
83. One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. Thomas Jefferson
84. He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. Baltasar Gracian
85. Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. Elizabeth Bowen
86. I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening. J. J. Abrams
87. Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. Wallace Stevens
88. 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
89. 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
90. If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. E. O. Wilson
91. Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. Friedrich Nietzsche
92. You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat! Jack LaLanne
93. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. John F. Kennedy
94. You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people. Judy Garland
95. I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone. Flip Wilson
96. Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up. John C. Maxwell
97. You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others. Steve Lacy
98. When everything is lonely I can be my best friend. Conor Oberst
99. Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone. Anna Nicole Smith