949 private quotes tagged alone

“At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.”— Jean de la Bruyere

“I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.”— Tallulah Bankhead

“When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.”— Walter Scott

“Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.”— Joseph Joubert

“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”— Charlie Chaplin

“Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.”— Evelyn Waugh

“The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.”— Vivienne Westwood

“Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.”— Eliot Engel

“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.”— Cyrano de Bergerac

“'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.”— Harry Connick, Jr.

“Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.”— William Osler

“We'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 Welles

“I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody I don't have to be a first to anybody.”— Lena Horne

“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

“A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.”— Eileen Caddy

“If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.”— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.”— Mick Jagger

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”— Martin Heidegger

“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.”— Stendhal

“Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.”— Roy Orbison

“I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.”— Emo Philips

“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”— Jean de la Bruyere

“Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.”— Barbara Boxer

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.”— Johnny Cash