Alone - Quotes & Sayings

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

Maurice Sendak

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

Diablo Cody

I know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have a great supporting cast.

Klay Thompson

Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.

Saint Bernard

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Evelyn Waugh

CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.

Jason Calacanis

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Arthur Erickson

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

Gary Becker

It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.

Christian Slater

My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

William Tyndale

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

B. R. Hayden

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

Ernest Lawrence

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

Alex Kapranos

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

Terry McMillan

I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.

Jaan Tallinn

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

William Morris Hunt

Children need stimulation and stability. That can come from grandparents, cousins, teachers, nannies, childcare centres - as long as they engage with the children and are really fond of them. There are also times when children need to be left alone to learn to be independent and to encourage their imaginary friends.

Tony Buzan

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Phyllis McGinley

I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.

David Karp

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

John Fletcher

Just going to Comic-Con alone, that's an unreal experience on its own. I think if everyone in the world could experience that place, it would change their outlook. It's just one big lovefest. It's pretty incredible.

Ari Millen

You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.

Jon Polito

I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

Giuseppe Verdi

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.

Nicolas Cage

Love 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 Chardin

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Charles Bukowski

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Golda Meir

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

Chuck Palahniuk

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

Remember we're all in this alone.

Lily Tomlin

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Walter Scott

It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Robert Anton Wilson

Better be alone than in bad company.

Thomas Fuller

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Robert M. Pirsig

I want to be alone.

Greta Garbo

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Douglas Coupland

I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.

Dick Van Dyke

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Loneliness is, like, when you wish someone else was there, and solitude is when you enjoy being alone. I don't always wanna be alone, but I definitely like pockets of solitude to recharge and come back to myself. I think that's so important for everyone.

Jonathan Van Ness

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also.

George Muller

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

Martha Beck

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

Solitude is un-American.

Erica Jong

I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.

Charlie Puth

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

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Amy Lowell