Alone quotes

“I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.” Steve Martin

“Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.” Steve Martin

“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.” Henry Miller

“Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.” Horace Mann

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

“To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.” James Madison

“Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.” John Muir

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” Blaise Pascal

“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.” Blaise Pascal

“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.” Blaise Pascal

“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?” Chuck Palahniuk

“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.” Mitt Romney

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

“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.” Keith Richards

“I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.” Henry Rollins

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.” Anne Frank

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.” Wayne Dyer

“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.” Rene Descartes

“I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.” Princess Diana

“Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.” James Dean

“I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.” Ingrid Bergman

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.” Arthur Schopenhauer

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

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.” Jean-Paul Sartre