Alone Quotes

It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.

~ Paloma Faith

I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.

~ Daisy Ridley

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

~ Orison Swett Marden

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

~ Salvador Dalí

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

~ George W. Bush

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

~ James Prescott Joule

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

~ Orison Swett Marden

There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.

~ John James Audubon

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

~ Arianna Huffington

Going on the road for long stretches can seem daunting, and I certainly miss being home sometimes, but the chance to see so many different cities, let alone perform in them, is something I am really grateful for.

~ John Mulaney

Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.

~ Jacques Monod

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

~ Harvey Mackay

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

~ Martin Luther

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

~ Paul Washer

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

~ Isaac Newton

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

~ Martin Luther

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

~ John Wesley

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

~ Jesus Christ

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

~ Wendell Berry

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

~ Elie Wiesel

There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.

~ Guru Nanak

I like to go dancing, have a few beers. I like being alone, too. I have days where it's 'God, get me a shot of tequila.'

~ Justine Bateman

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

~ John F. Kennedy

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

~ Carl Jung

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

~ Marcel Proust

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

~ P. G. Wodehouse

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

~ René Descartes

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you'll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life.

~ Lauren London

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

~ Anthony De Mello

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

~ Jennifer Lopez

I had a fear of being alone.

~ Gloria Gaynor

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

~ Britney Spears

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

~ Jeffrey Kluger

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

~ Dylan Moran

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

~ Ferdinand Marcos

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

~ Ibrahim Babangida