Solitude is independence.
Herman HesseAs a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Herman HesseIt 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 HesseSeek 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 TeresaMy heart never knew loneliness until you went away.
UnknownDo 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 KiplingIn Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes it is a great relief.
John BarrymoreThe 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 FullerLook 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 KalamThe true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Pope John XXIIILoneliness 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 ThoreauIt is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy, it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other and seven days are more than enough for others.
Jane AustenRemember, 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 TeresaDoubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil GibranMusic 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 TeresaTo follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin FranklinI'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. SeussAnd it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
AristotleSolitude 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.
BuddhaCompassion 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'AmourNothing 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 ColtonBefore the throne of the Almighty man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Mahatma GandhiI 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 ByronI need to do things on my own need to be left alone.
Henry RollinsAll 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 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.
MichelangeloWhoever thinks that he alone has speech or possesses speech or mind above others when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
SophoclesIt'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 GoetheVictims 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. ChestertonPractice alone makes man perfect.
Sai BabaThere 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 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 MonroeChange alone is unchanging.
HeraclitusWe 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 JungLove 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 LowellIt 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 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 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 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 JohnsonWhy 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 MorissetteThe 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 MardenThe 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 CampbellEveryday 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. WilsonYour 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 StoneWe are rarely proud when we are alone.
VoltaireIt 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 KafkaIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas JeffersonLet 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 CarreyEach 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.
VoltaireSensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love, it could not do so alone but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it it can do so.
Franz KafkaWe'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 WellesHe who has wealth has friends and relations, he alone survives and is respected as a man.
ChanakyaEvery man desires to acquire Ananda. From where can Ananda be acquired ? Faith alone can win Ananda.
Sai BabaIndividual 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 BabaEvery man must do two things alone, he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin LutherIts is Truth and Truth alone that is one's real friend relative.
Sai BabaWe learn about life not from plusses alone but from minuses as well.
Anton ChekhovThey 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.
ChanakyaDo 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 BabaBetter mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar GracianI 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. HeinleinThe best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell, The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
MichelangeloIt 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 ThoreauHe alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.
Sai BabaWe can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it the more we contemplate him.
Simone WeilGod writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone but also on trees and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Martin LutherSelf-reverence self-knowledge self-control, these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Alfred Lord TennysonEven 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 RomneyHe that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing the sage in much and God in everything.
Baltasar GracianThere'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 CoolidgeI was sleeping the other night alone thanks to the exterminator.
Emo PhilipsWhen 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 MorissetteNo 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