ALONE Quotes

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)


I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
(Audrey Hepburn)

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
(Audrey Hepburn)


A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
(John Lennon)

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
(Marilyn Monroe )

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
(Marilyn Monroe )

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
(Wayne Dyer)

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
(Plato)

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
(Martin Luther)

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
(Charlie Chaplin)

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
(Orson Welles)

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
(Robert A. Heinlein)

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
James Madison

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. Seuss

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Arthur Schopenhauer

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.
Henry Rollins

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

Testing oneself is best when done alone.
Jimmy Carter

Better be alone than in bad company.
Thomas Fuller

We're all in this alone.
Lily Tomlin



Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van BeethovenRecommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van BeethovenThis, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.Hubert H. HumphreyLove alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.AeschylusEducation alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.Horace MannObserve, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.William OslerTo have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.William Osler

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.Paramahansa Yogananda
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
Robert Anton Wilson

I want to be alone.
Greta Garbo

Being alone is very difficult.
Yoko Ono

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

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
Ovid

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

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
Lena Horne

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
John Dryden

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

By all means use some time to be alone.
Edward Young

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck