Alone Quotes

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.

~ Arthur Quiller-Couch

I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

~ Faith Hill

If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.

~ Guru Nanak

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

~ Debbie Ford

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

~ William S. Burroughs

Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

~ Richard Dawkins

How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

~ Warren Bennis

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

~ Abu Bakar Bashir

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

~ Douglas Coupland

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

~ Charles Stanley

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson

I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

~ Kendrick Lamar

It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

~ Stephen Hawking

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

~ Edwin Way Teale

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

~ Angelina Jolie

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

~ Coco Chanel

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

~ Russell Hoban

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

~ Justin Timberlake

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

~ Conor Oberst

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

~ Frida Kahlo

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

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

~ Maria Semple

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

~ St. Jerome

A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

~ Chanakya

You can't change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

~ William H. Mcraven

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

~ George Washington

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

~ Joyce Meyer

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

~ Booker T. Washington

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

~ Mao Zedong

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

~ Steven Spielberg

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

~ Martin Luther

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

~ Pope Francis

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba diving. Back in the 1940s when he tested out his invention which allowed humans to swim freely in the ocean with a portable air source for the first time in history, very little of the ocean had been explored let alone captured on film.

~ Philippe Cousteau

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

~ Chesty Puller

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

~ William Butler Yeats

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

~ Peter Abrahams