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“It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.”
Franz Kafka
“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”
Franz Kafka
“What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.”
Ovid
“You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.”
Dennis Quaid
“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Love would never leave us alone”
Bob Marley
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
Dr Seuss
“The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.”
George Washington Bush
“I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.”
Jim Carrey
“My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.”
Jim Carrey
“No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.”
Hillary Clinton
“I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.”
Clint Eastwood
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
Audrey Hepburn
“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
Audrey Hepburn
“I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
Audrey Hepburn
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
Helen Keller
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
“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
“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.”
Mick Jagger
“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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Rudyard Kipling
“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.”
John Locke
“It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.”
Paul McCartney
“The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.”
Michelangelo
“I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.”
Michelangelo
“The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.”
Michelangelo