949 private quotes tagged alone

“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

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“It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“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.” — W. E. B. Du Bois

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“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

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“Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.” — Fiona Apple

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“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

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“The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.” — Vaclav Havel

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“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

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“I don't like being alone.” — Cristiano Ronaldo

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

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“I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.” — Andrew Sullivan

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“People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.” — Henry James

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“Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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

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“A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.” — Jeremy Taylor

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

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“Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.” — Paul Tillich

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“I'm so secluded. Very alone.” — Yves Saint Laurent

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“Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.” — Robert Browning

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

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“Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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

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“Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.” — Mary Baker Eddy

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“You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.” — Slavoj Zizek

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