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 KellerLove 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 CoelhoWith every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
Oprah WinfreyThe 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 KellerWhy do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
Haruki MurakamiI 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 MarleyDo not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother TeresaI have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
Kahlil GibranHealth consists with temperance alone.
Alexander PopeForget sex, or politics, or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Doug CouplandThe 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 ByronI owe my solitude to other people.
Alan WattsEvery 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 ThoreauThe true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Pope John XXIIIChildren, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore de BalzacLoneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother TeresaIn 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 ThoreauTo follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin FranklinCompassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric HofferIt is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonAssociate 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'AmourSelfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.
Sai BabaNothing ever exists entirely alone, everything is in relation to everything else.
BuddhaEven cats grow lonely and anxious.
Mason CooleyHe who studies books alone will know how things ought to be and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb ColtonIt is the fight alone that pleases us not the victory.
Blaise PascalIs he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Charles LindberghLiving 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 ByronIt is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador DaliI 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.
BuddhaConcentrated complete faith - that alone can bring victory.
Sai BabaThe 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 AngelouIf 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. WilsonI cannot live under pressures from patrons let alone paint.
MichelangeloIt is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhoever thinks that he alone has speech or possesses speech or mind above others when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
SophoclesOur Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin LutherAssociate 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 BabaNo 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 SartreAll 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. ChestertonFashion 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 ChanelFor 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 BabaThe momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come we can know that His purposes are just and true.
George W. BushThere is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone and that I have no one to tell it to.
Michel de MontaigneI 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 HawkingI 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 MonroeChange alone is unchanging.
HeraclitusJustice cannot be for one side alone but must be for both.
Eleanor RooseveltI 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 EastwoodPerhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs, he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich NietzscheA 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.
ChanakyaThe foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell LowellI restore myself when I'm alone.
Marilyn MonroeThe best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
MichelangeloWhen 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 ChurchillThe creative act is not performed by the artist alone, the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
Marcus AureliusFor 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 BabaGenius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.
Joseph JoubertAnd 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 MullerPatient 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 MorissetteWhen 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 CampbellThroughout my whole life as a performer I've never played with a band. I've always played alone so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.
Steve MartinReason 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 CarlyleYour 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 StoneNothing 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 DescartesMan does not live by soap alone, and hygiene or even health is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it, or better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRemember 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 AvilaWhen 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.
VoltaireGrant 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 DianaDo 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 BabaI 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. HeinleinThere'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 Coolidge