Alone - Quotes & Sayings
I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.
Eddie Van HalenWe're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
Charles BukowskiTo have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William OslerAlone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Guru NanakNo matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.
Maria ShriverTo my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
Stephen HawkingNothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
Reinhold NiebuhrEntrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.
Leah BusqueWe don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
Sandra Day O'ConnorPeople used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Chuck PalahniukI used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
Marilyn MonroeVery few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.
Susan PowterTo stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
Richard ThompsonI have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
Claude MonetI would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Charles BukowskiI like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. I'm sorry.
Hope SoloI never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.
Greta GarboWhen we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
Friedensreich HundertwasserYou alone are enough.
Oprah WinfreyFor some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.
Joyce Carol OatesSaving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
Charles SpurgeonOnly through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.
Ravi ZachariasThe thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
Hank AaronThere's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.
Mike MillsI am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.
DeRay MckessonAll of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
RajneeshThe artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMy reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.
Leonard CohenIt's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.
Joaquin PhoenixTime, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
VoltaireCompassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric HofferSchizophrenia beats dining alone.
Oscar LevantI'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.
Courtney LovePeople need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.
Dada VaswaniIt's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.
Paloma FaithI was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.
Dorothy HamillA dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
H. P. LovecraftUnknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.
Marie CurieWhen you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
Magic JohnsonWe're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We're finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we're having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what's possible on this planet alone.
Joe RoganMan is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.
Octavio PazThe law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Bertolt BrechtIf the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.
Guru NanakUsing simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
Irving PennA human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
Eileen CaddyThe truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
Wendy DavisLike they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.
Mario LopezI love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.
Ellen PageIt is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
James DouglasGrant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther