“You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.”
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“That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.”
“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.”
“Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.”
“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”
“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.”
“For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.”
“Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.”
“It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.”
“In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.”
“The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.”
“Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.”
“I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.”
“I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.”
“From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.”
“Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.”
“Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.”
“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.”
“I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.”
“To be adult is to be alone.”
“I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.”