Alone Quotes

Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.

~ Tim Huelskamp

The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.

~ Stella Young

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

~ Angel Olsen

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

~ William Albert Allard

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

~ Deborah Tannen

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

~ Robert Delaunay

I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.

~ Jamie Bamber

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

~ Randy Quaid

The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren.

~ Seth Shostak

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry inner-verse.

~ James St. James

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

~ Danielle Berry

Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.

~ Alison Owen

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

~ Mira Nair

'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.

~ Harry Connick

The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds.

~ John Niven

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

~ Taylor Caldwell

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

~ Robert Teeter

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

~ Paula Hawkins

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.

~ Jeff Miller

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

~ Beth Henley

The doer alone learneth.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

~ Anna Pavlova

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

~ Ramakrishna

Work alone is noble.

~ Thomas Carlyle

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

~ Richard Nelson Bolles

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

~ Jeff Bridges

I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the most famous person walk by some Dutch people, and they're like, 'Oh, hello.' And they maybe take a photo, but most of the time, they'll respect you and leave you alone. And if you go to some other countries they will literally mob you, go crazy.

~ Martin Garrix

I drive around on my scooter in Milan alone - we don't have bodyguards or anything like that. I am a fashion designer, not a celebrity, and although I get stopped for autographs and the like, I don't think I am famous.

~ Stefano Gabbana

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

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

~ Larry Wilcox

Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.

~ Dave Davies

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

~ Emily Dickinson

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

~ Jeremy Bentham

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

~ Patrick Henry

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

~ Yayoi Kusama

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

~ John Webster

Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

~ Donella Meadows