Alone Quotes

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

I always have been a private person. I like to be alone. When I was a little girl I used to listen to the radio and just be by myself.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

I don't like being alone.

If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Never having alone time is real tough on people.