949 private quotes tagged alone

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

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

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

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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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“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.” — Lord Byron

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“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.” — Tennessee Williams

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“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.” — Martin Luther

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“Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Testing oneself is best when done alone.” — Jimmy Carter

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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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“Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.” — Sophocles

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“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

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“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” — Alexander Pope

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“Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“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

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“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.” — James Madison

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“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.” — André Gide

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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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“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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“Health consists with temperance alone.” — Alexander Pope

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