“I want to be alone.”
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“Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.”
“Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.”
“Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.”
“We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.”
“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.”
“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.”
“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.”
“One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
“I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.”
“I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.”
“Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.”
“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”
“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.”
“On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”
“I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.”
“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.”
“'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.”
“I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.”
“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.”