949 private quotes tagged alone

“The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.”— Ashley Montagu

“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”— James Russell Lowell

“Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.”— David Hume

“And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.”— John Irving

“You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.”— Peter Abrahams

“You only grow when you are alone.”— Paul Newman

“I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.”— David Cameron

“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”— Adlai E. Stevenson

“The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone.”— James Baldwin

“If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.”— Tori Amos

“Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.”— Adlai E. Stevenson

“But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.”— Thornton Wilder

“Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.”— Marilyn vos Savant

“Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.”— John Dryden

“I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?”— Audre Lorde

“As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.”— Madeleine Albright

“I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.”— Jeanne Moreau

“There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.”— Jules Renard

“A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.”— George Canning

“I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.”— Elizabeth Gilbert

“And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.”— Olivier Martinez

“No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.”— Martha Beck

“U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.”— Bono

“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.”— Quintilian

“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”— Thomas Hardy