949 private quotes tagged alone

“Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.” — William Blackstone

1 fav

“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

1 fav

“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.” — Charles Caleb Colton

1 fav

“You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.” — David R. Ellis

1 fav

“Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.” — Charles Wesley

1 fav

“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.” — Marcel Proust

1 fav

“Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.” — Ferdinand Marcos

1 fav

“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.” — Pericles

1 fav

“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.” — Coco Chanel

1 fav

“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.” — Martin Luther

0 favs

“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.” — Samuel Johnson

0 favs

“The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.” — Sophocles

0 favs

“The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.” — Michelangelo

0 favs

“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.” — Samuel Johnson

0 favs

“No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.” — Anna Pavlova

0 favs

“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.” — Maya Angelou

0 favs

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” — Yoko Ono

0 favs

“The strong man is strongest when alone.” — Friedrich Schiller

0 favs

“The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau

0 favs

“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” — George Washington

0 favs

“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.” — Charles Bukowski

0 favs

“No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.” — Danielle Berry

0 favs

“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

0 favs

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.” — Octavio Paz

0 favs

“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

0 favs