Alone Quotes

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

~ Andrew Eldritch

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

~ Stendhal

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

~ Paul Gauguin

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

~ Grover Norquist

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

~ Helen Keller

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

~ Samuel Johnson

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

~ Joel Edgerton

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

~ Evangeline Lilly

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

~ Ernest Renan

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

~ Natalie Imbruglia

I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself.

~ Tituss Burgess

Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.

~ Kate Christensen

I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.

~ Brandon Stanton

People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.

~ Tim Schafer

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

~ Jim Hunt

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

~ Jaron Lanier

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

~ Jaron Lanier

Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

~ Marvin Sapp

Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly alone in the house with her because my two older brothers were away at college. I was the man of the house, and she was the grieving woman.

~ Billy Crystal

My mom's always been a good cook, so I took a lot of stuff from her, but most of the stuff I took from Emeril or Bobby Flay right off the TV and make it. I just loved to cook, so it just became a thing. It's a release. Even if I'm alone, I'll cook a full meal, maybe even a two-course meal, just because I love to cook. It's my secret love!

~ Christian Kane

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

~ Dirk Kempthorne

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

~ Thomas Francis Meagher

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

~ Thomas Jefferson

I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.

~ Louie Gohmert

There's nothing wrong with taking yourself out of the dating pool. You don't need to be in a relationship because that's what society expects of you or because your grandmother thinks you need to be married by a certain date. Those days are over. Instead, take a step back and say, 'I'm OK alone.'

~ Whitney Wolfe

I have run from a lot of relationships in favor of being alone. And I tend to find men who use their money and status as a dating tool to be unattractive.

~ Erin Foster

A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.

~ Barry Jenkins

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

~ Billy Idol

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

~ Horace Mann

Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

~ Adam Braun

Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.

~ Wendy Kopp

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

~ Baltasar Gracián

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

~ Horace

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

~ Virat Kohli

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

~ Alfred Nobel