“There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.”
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“I need, absolutely, to be alone.”
“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”
“Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.”
“I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.”
“On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.”
“Alone I'm nothing.”
“I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.”
“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.”
“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.”
“I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.”
“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.”
“If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.”
“The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.”
“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.”
“You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.”
“Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.”
“Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.”
“It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.”
“We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?”