Solitude is independence.
Herman HesseAs a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Herman HesseLove is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Thomas MertonIt is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert EinsteinNobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
Haruki MurakamiAlone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Helen KellerI live in that solitude which is painful in youth but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert EinsteinIt is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
Herman HesseLove consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria RilkeSeek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
Maya AngelouMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan WattsAll alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!
Dr. SeussTrust and start walking. We are not alone in the dark, our path will unfold as we move.
Paulo CoelhoThe worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
Mark TwainHuman beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
Paulo CoelhoWalking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen KellerI alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother TeresaLove would never leave us alone.
Bob MarleyMy heart never knew loneliness until you went away.
UnknownDo not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother TeresaHealth consists with temperance alone.
Alexander PopeThe superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
ConfuciusHe travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard KiplingThe soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThen stirs the feeling infinite so felt, In solitude where we are least alone.
Lord ByronEvery government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas JeffersonBlood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin LutherSometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case the thought is staggering.
R. Buckminster FullerI love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David ThoreauLoneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother TeresaIt is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIn solitude where we are least alone.
Lord ByronBeing prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
Margaret ThatcherHaving abandoned the ways of darkness, let the wise follow the light. Having come from home to homelessness, let him enjoy the bliss of solitude so difficult to achieve.
BuddhaVirtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
ConfuciusOne travels more usefully when alone because he reflects more.
Thomas JeffersonPeople used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together, and they were scared of being alone.
Chuck PalahniukThe man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David ThoreauRemember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
John C. MaxwellIf 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 CarlinThe monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert EinsteinDeath is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody AllenThe biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother TeresaMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya AngelouThere is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Henry David ThoreauLet us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted, according to the graces we have received, and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother TeresaI'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. SeussSolitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.
Herman HesseThis life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
BuddhaAssociate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonSolitude is painful when one is young but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert EinsteinWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George EliotNo memory is ever alone, it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Louis L'AmourNothing ever exists entirely alone, everything is in relation to everything else.
BuddhaEven cats grow lonely and anxious.
Mason CooleyThe gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice WalkerI have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men, than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David ThoreauIt is the fight alone that pleases us not the victory.
Blaise PascalLiving alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Mason CooleyUnconditional 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. KennedyI only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Lord ByronYou 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 GarlandWhat is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page And be alone on earth as I am now
Lord ByronI think I meant that given the circumstances of my childhood I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person because it was more romantic. You know I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
Steve MartinI need to do things on my own need to be left alone.
Henry RollinsWe had a great run. Three rings. I think people should leave it the hell alone and move on. ... I understand it's interesting but we also have an interesting game. The game itself tomorrow is interesting.
Kobe BryantAll things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone, everything is in relation to everything else.
BuddhaKnow then this truth enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander PopeThe doer alone learneth.
Friedrich NietzscheWe 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 AngelouI cannot live under pressures from patrons let alone paint.
MichelangeloGod alone is the giver of life the guardian of life and the goal of life.
Sai BabaWhoever thinks that he alone has speech or possesses speech or mind above others when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
SophoclesAssociate yourself with people of good quality for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. WashingtonAn artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry MillerIt'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 MonroeYou cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Wayne DyerRigid the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia WoolfA man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
Arthur SchopenhauerI don't want to be alone I want to be left alone.
Audrey HepburnI used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert EinsteinI am also the target of such comments people do not understand the way of God. How can they know why particular event takes place at a particular time in a particular manner? He alone can know. But people try to sit in judgment and talk ill when for example one dies of illness at this place how can anyone escape death?
Sai BabaWhat is uttered from the heart alone Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNo enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need it performs some great service not for itself but for others, or failing therein it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin CoolidgeVictims always feel alone and helpless.
Deepak ChopraThere 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 SartreFor what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body let alone the mind or both in combination when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Virginia WoolfPractice alone makes man perfect.
Sai BabaI alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert FrostYou are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. WilsonWhen they are alone they want to be with others and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all human beings are like that.
Gertrude SteinThe radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza let alone cooking it.
Stephen HawkingThe difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody AllenI 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 CarreyIt's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
Marilyn MonroeWe are not to give credit to the many who say that none ought to be educated but the free, but rather to the philosophers who say that the well-educated alone are free.
EpictetusJustice cannot be for one side alone but must be for both.
Eleanor RooseveltKnowledge rests not upon truth alone but upon error also.
Carl JungI do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught all the world would be wise since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning understanding patience love openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Joseph AddisonLove alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI 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 EastwoodA 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.
ChanakyaIt is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom whole worlds apart who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel ProustI restore myself when I'm alone.
Marilyn MonroeWhen I warned them (the French) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken
Winston ChurchillI 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. KennedyFor the progress of humanity work alone is not adequate but the work should be associated with love compassion right conduct truthfulness and sympathy. Without the above qualities selfless service cannot be performed.
Sai BabaIf you sing alone in your shrine the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing what you have is not a reaction but a wave of vibrations. They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air.
Sai BabaAnd then when all around grows dark when we feel utterly alone when all men right and left pass us by and know us not a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.
Max MullerFor 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 HepburnPatient endurance attaineth to all things, who God possesseth in nothing is wanting, alone God sufficeth.
Saint Teresa of AvilaIf a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone. A man sir should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel JohnsonA heart soaked in love alone is a sacred heart.
Sai BabaThe cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.
Sai BabaA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
James MadisonWhy is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone but that's usually how you end up crying?
Chuck PalahniukI 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 MorissetteWisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
PlatoWhen you get a thing the way you want it leave it alone.
Winston ChurchillI think people should just leave it the hell alone. Move on.
Kobe BryantThe 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 MardenSome will say Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer God only Acts & Is in existing beings or Men.
William BlakeThe courage to face the trials and to bring... possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience that is the hero's deed. We have only to follow the heros path and where we had thought to find abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves... Where we had thought to travel outward we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we will be with all the world.
Joseph CampbellReason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Ayn RandNone of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas CarlyleEveryday the mail brings the thousands of letters and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet I do not take the help of anyone else even to open the envelopes. For you write to me intimate details of your personal problems believing that I alone will read them and having implicit confidence in Me. You write each one only a single letter that makes for Me a huge bundle a day, and I have to go through all of them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.
Sai BabaIf we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
E. O. WilsonA man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst he has the company of a boy a youth and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
Cesare PaveseI have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
Paul CezanneDoubt of whatever kind can be ended by action alone.
Thomas CarlyleNothing we do however virtuous can be accomplished alone, therefore we are saved by love.
Reinhold NiebuhrPlant and your spouse plants with you, weed and you weed alone.
Jean-Jacques RousseauNo harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Theodor W. AdornoWe are rarely proud when we are alone.
VoltaireReligious austerities should be practiced alone study by two and singing by three. A journey should be undertaken by four agriculture by five and war by many together.
ChanakyaBeing an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination and that's all you have.
James DeanA leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Henry A. KissingerIt is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen only wait. Do not even wait be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking it can do no other in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz KafkaThis 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. HumphreyThe two operations of our understanding intuition and deduction on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene DescartesRemember we're all in this alone.
Lily TomlinThe Bomb brought peace but man alone can keep that peace.
Winston ChurchillWe're all in this alone.
Lily TomlinLet nothing disturb thee, Let nothing dismay thee, All thing pass, God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.
Saint Teresa of AvilaMy mother was a professional sick person, she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
Jim CarreyI am a man amongst men when they see Me I appear as a man. Amongst woman I am a woman. Amongst children I am a child. When alone I am God. This is the truth about Me.
Sai BabaThis is the highest wisdom that I own, freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen thinking about companions gone we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Walter ScottEach player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
VoltaireYou can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. SeussGrant that I may not pray alone with the mouth, help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin LutherEverything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.
William BlakeI don't even know how to use a parking meter let alone a phone box.
Princess DianaThe light of lights looks always on the motive not the deed the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler YeatsAll men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise PascalSlump and the world slumps with you. Push and you push alone.
Laurence J. PeterHe who has wealth has friends and relations, he alone survives and is respected as a man.
ChanakyaBeing 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 BombeckWhen so many are lonely as seem to be lonely it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee WilliamsMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis StevensonThe struggle alone pleases us not the victory.
Blaise PascalIndividual spiritual practice is the negative pole and service is the positive pole. The conjunction of both poles can alone bring success. The mind carries the divine principle (the light of love) and conveys it to all who contact it.
Sai BabaIf we take science as our sole guide if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable the old theology must go.
John BurroughsEvery man must do two things alone, he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin LutherYou that would judge me do not judge alone this book or that come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon, Ireland's history in their lineaments trace, think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler YeatsWisdom comes alone through suffering.
AeschylusIts is Truth and Truth alone that is one's real friend relative.
Sai BabaAlone all alone, Nobody but nobody, Can make it out here alone.
Maya AngelouI have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
Gustave FlaubertNo nation can meet the world's challenges alone.
Hillary ClintonThey alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a friend in whom we can confide and she only is a wife in whose company the husband feels contented and peaceful.
ChanakyaTrue thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Theodor W. AdornoIt is not alone that property in all its forms is struck at but that liberty in all its forms is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of Socialism
Winston ChurchillExcessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage and detachment from sense pleasures leads to liberation, therefore it is the mind alone that is responsible for bondage or liberation.
ChanakyaThe Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.
Winston ChurchillTime perfects all living beings as well as kills them, it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
ChanakyaIt is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.
George WashingtonAh mon cher for anyone who is alone without God and without a master the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert CamusI want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
Rainer Maria RilkeLove alone can overcome obstacles however many and mighty.
Sai BabaThe spirit burning but unbent / May writhe rebel - the weak alone repent!
Lord ByronTo the press alone chequered as it is with abuses the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
James MadisonIt's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
Paul McCartneyThe desktop metaphor was invented because one you were a stand-alone device and two you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.
Steve JobsDown to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard KiplingWithout a family man alone in the world trembles with the cold.
Andre MauroisMan alone is born crying lives complaining and dies disappointed.
Samuel JohnsonI have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked earned money and was independent at 18.
Ingrid BergmanDo not worry about anything. Place yourself fully at His disposal He knows. He has written the Play and He knows how it will end and how it will go on. Yours is but to act and retire. The Lord alone is aware of the Play for His is the Plan! You see only the part of the Play on the stage and so it is all very confused. When the entire story is unfolded then you will appreciate His plan not until then, for that you will have to get behind the screen of Maya and contact the Director Himself.
Sai BabaThe only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert CamusThe rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
SophoclesThe duration of life is uncertain and the place of habitation is uncertain, but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.
ChanakyaOften 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 HubbardBetter be alone than in bad company.
Thomas FullerIf you are lonely when you're alone you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul SartreBetter mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar GracianIn 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 TolstoyWhat is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps, with it alone she lives.
OvidI 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. HeinleinLove turns with a little indulgence to indifference or disgust, hatred alone is immortal.
William HazlittTime which alone makes the reputation of men ends by making their defects respectable.
VoltaireIt is love alone that gives worth to all things
Saint Teresa of AvilaThe most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
Chuck PalahniukIt is very easy to love alone.
Gertrude SteinWe 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 HenryThose who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain insult and injury. The succession of joy and grief must help confirm the faith and make it immovable. That alone can evidence true devotion.
Sai BabaA man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David ThoreauTime alone reveals the just man, but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
SophoclesHe alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.
Sai BabaEven though I love solar and love wind like most people do I like the renewable sources they alone are not going to get America energy independent.
Mitt RomneyDon't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
Denis WaitleyThere's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say oh God I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.
Drew BarrymoreNothing 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 CoolidgeWhen 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 MorissetteTo make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee One clover and a bee And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few.
Emily DickinsonNo face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
Henry David ThoreauNo woman can be handsome by the force of features alone any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
Kin Hubbard