949 private quotes tagged alone

“I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.” — Paul Cezanne

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“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.” — Rene Descartes

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“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.” — Pope John XXIII

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“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.” — Paul Tournier

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“All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.” — Christian Lous Lange

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“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.” — Elayne Boosler

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“Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.” — Goran Persson

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“Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.” — Arnold Rothstein

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“On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.” — Janis Joplin

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“I want to be alone.” — Greta Garbo

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“Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.” — Martha Beck

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“I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.” — Whitney Houston

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“It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.” — Ingrid Bergman

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“Remember we're all in this alone.” — Lily Tomlin

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“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.” — Oliver Goldsmith

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“I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.” — Alfred Eisenstaedt

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“A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.” — Boethius

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“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.” — Anton Chekhov

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“Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.” — James Dean

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“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” — Maxwell Maltz

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“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.” — Thomas Browne

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