949 private quotes tagged alone

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

“He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.”— Alexandre Dumas

“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

“And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.”— Mos Def

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

“I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.”— Peter O'Toole

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

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

“It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.”— Bruce Barton

“To be adult is to be alone.”— Jean Rostand

“If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.”— O. Henry

“If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.”— V. S. Naipaul

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

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

“One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.”— Christian Bale

“Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.”— Gary Becker

“Successful crimes alone are justified.”— John Dryden

“Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.”— Susan Sontag

“I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.”— Gerald R. Ford

“As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.”— Tom Hanks

“Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.”— Thomas de Quincey

“You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.”— Lenny Kravitz

“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

“I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.”— Rick James

“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