“I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.”
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“It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.”
“The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with your friends.”
“In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.”
“People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.”
“Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.”
“I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.”
“I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.”
“Man cannot live by incompetence alone.”
“I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.”
“With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.”
“Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.”
“In the country of pain we are each alone.”
“People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.”
“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”
“All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!”
“I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.”
“Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.”
“As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.”
“Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.”
“Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.”
“Let your mind alone, and see what happens.”
“I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.”
“If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.”