949 private quotes tagged alone

“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.” — Robert Frost

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

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“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

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

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“The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.” — Doug Coupland

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“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

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“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

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“Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.” — Mason Cooley

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“I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.” — Charles Bukowski

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“This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.” — George Carlin

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“The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.” — Richard Branson

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“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.” — Albert Einstein

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“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.” — Ayn Rand

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“Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.” — Tennessee Williams

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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.” — Lord Byron

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“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” — John F. Kennedy

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“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” — Thomas Jefferson

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