Alone - Quotes & Sayings

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'

Pete Rose

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

Richard Pryor

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, he shall not be dashed to pieces, for the Lord sustains him in his hand.

Thomas Becket

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

ASAP Ferg

I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.

Brie Larson

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

Shawn Amos

Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

Chris Abani

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Louis Aragon

If you live in a family or have five roommates, there's some sort of reality check, but when you live alone, there's a lot more leeway for your fantasy life to be more and more a part of your everyday life.

Claire Messud

When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in Istanbul's old city alone. It's hard to imagine their lives in their human totality.

Elif Batuman

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

Danielle Fishel

I like to go dancing, have a few beers. I like being alone, too. I have days where it's 'God, get me a shot of tequila.'

Justine Bateman

I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly.

Claire Cameron

David - the man after God's own heart - was a man of war and a mighty man of valour. When all Israel were on the run, David faced Goliath - alone... with God - and he but a stripling, and well scolded, too, by his brother for having come to see the battle.

Charles Studd

I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not her.

Steve Harvey

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

Saint Ambrose

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

Steve Carell

I am bipolar, and I am proud. And that is why I wanted to write a book. To shine a light on mental illness, to be vulnerable about the days I let it take control and paid dearly for it, and to tell anyone fighting a similar battle: You are not alone. You are not broken.

AJ Lee

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

Yves Tanguy

My missus knows to leave me alone.

Brian O'Driscoll

I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

Ari Graynor

The thought of being alone when time goes on is a little bit scary sometimes, but not really.

Celia Hammond

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

O. Henry

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

Sam Houston

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

Malcolm Turnbull

By all means use some time to be alone.

Edward Young

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

Charles Wesley

Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.

Nancy Gibbs

Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.

Ann Hood

I learned how not to be alone in the playground.

Emil Ferris

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Jules Renard

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Philip Guston

I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

To 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 Madison

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

Kofi Annan

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you're not really alone.

Molly Tarlov

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

Stuart Appleby

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.

Emanuel Steward

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

Roy Orbison

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Benjamin Franklin

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

Marilyn Monroe

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Buddha

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

Abraham Lincoln

To be labelled a cheat - it's not fair. If I'm a cheat, then prove I'm a cheat or just leave me alone and let me do what I do best.

Mo Farah

The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.

Ramana Maharshi

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Benito Mussolini

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

Leighton Meester