Alone In Quotes

#1. He wished at that moment that his whole life had not been a secret, that lots of people were like him, instead of his being alone in a world where everyone was secure in their place as either woman or man. His aloneness was what made him feel ashamed, and he did not know why it had to be so.

Kathleen Winter

#2. There's no such thing as being alone in the universe, and so there's no such thing as creating alone. Everything - every impulse, every creative gift of beauty, everything is a co-creation.

Gary Zukav

#3. Pain is not what you see and not what you feel. Pain is what you can only hear, alone in the dark.

Lisa Gardner

#4. There is nothing more alone in the universe than man. He is alone because he has the intellectual capacity to know that he is separated by a vast gulf of social memory and experiment from the lives of his animal associates.

Loren Eiseley

#5. What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

Wilkie Collins

#6. When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when an athlete feels all alone in the big world. Opponents assume tremendous stature. Any runner who denies having fears, nerves or some kind of disposition is a bad athlete, or a liar.

Gordon Pirie

#7. I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.

Rafael Nadal

#8. I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

Joaquin Phoenix

#9. I think the beating in our hearts was put there to remind us that even when we are alone in the world, we march on. That even in the enormous dark and quiet, we always have someone to lean on, to embrace and turn to. That even when we have no one else, we always have ourselves.

Beau Taplin

#10. This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.

Will Self

#11. The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

Max Lucado

#12. I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.

Karin Slaughter

#13. Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#14. Whatever is going on in your life just remember ... don't ever give up! Always keep your head up and smile. Please remember that you're not alone in this world ... more people care about you then you realize.

Timothy Pina

#15. People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#16. I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Jamaica Kincaid

#17. 24 It's better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a quarrelsome wife in a lovely home.

Anonymous

#18. As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm.

John Templeton

#19. The sedan went too and I stood alone in the woods and watched my ear burn.

Robert B. Parker

#20. In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles.

Michael M. Honda

#21. I was alone in this discovery because it was my secret, my private exploration.

Paloma Beck

#22. Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

Walter Kaufmann

#23. It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

David Duchovny

#24. From RIVER
My body is filled with sand. The heavy grains flow from my eyes and seek somewhere to fall.
Speak to me friends. Tell me I am free to go now, for I need to sit alone in the sun on the river bank, juggling pebbles.

Jay Woodman

#25. I love the process of being alone in a room.

James Frey

#26. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time. The

Maria Semple

#27. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

Elie Wiesel

#28. A tree that falls alone in the forest still makes a sound. It just wishes it didn't.

Wayne Gladstone

#29. I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Laurence Sterne

#30. Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

John Sterling

#31. 'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'

Chris Van Allsburg

#32. The need of our times is nothing less than the re-Christianization of our churches, according to the gospel alone, in both doctrine and culture, by Christ himself

Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

#33. In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#34. Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

John Selden

#35. I don't like scary films. I watched Psycho for the first time recently, alone in the house at night. That was a mistake. I had to call my friend to come over.

Martin Sheen

#36. If somebody that I cared about was crying alone in a parking lot," he said, wishing he could tell her that she was somebody he cared about, "at this time of night, I'd want somebody to call me.

Rainbow Rowell

#37. It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

Nathan Myhrvold

#38. I will be like Nijinksi, who was taken last year to the Russian ballet, and could not comprehend what spectacle he was viewing. I will be alone, quite alone in myself, indifferent to all the world's ballets.

Andre Breton

#39. We didn't exchange a word. Not because we felt so alone in our grief, but because we were so together in it, as if we were one body instead of two.

Cheryl Strayed

#40. He cries behind his wall, I think, and no one knows, not even he. And no one will ever know, and in the end he'll always be alone in smiling pain.

George R R Martin

#41. You can be alone in a crowd of people

Karen White

#42. There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.

Martin Parr

#43. SADNESSES OF THE COVENANT: Sadness of God's love; Sadness of God's back [sic]; Favourite-child sadness; Sadness of b[ein]g sad in front of one's God; Sadness of the opposite of belief [sic]; What if? Sadness; Sadness of God alone in heaven; Sadness of a God who would need people to pray to Him ...

Jonathan Safran Foer

#44. They have courses teaching you foreign languages and ballroom dancing and etiquette and cooking. But there are no classes to learn how to be by yourself in a furnished room with chipped dishes, or how to be alone in general without any words of concern or familiar sounds.

Irmgard Keun

#45. Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

Katrina Kenison

#46. As much I love to imagine being alone in an orderly lab, I also know you can't stay in there forever and expect to do good work. Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment.

Sara Zarr

#47. I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#48. Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

Alexander Smith

#49. To feel unloved, to feel all alone in the world, hurts no matter who you are, or what possessions you have.

Melody Anne

#50. He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.

Neil Gaiman

#51. You,
quiet and alone in your kitchen, cigaretteless.
Me, left tapping on your rain-streaked window,

wanting you to know that everything is going
to get better, and really hoping that it does.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#52. All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#53. We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness. And there's trans-nationality. There are people like me, for example. I mean, what am I? Am I Indian? Am I American? And I'm not alone in being between things.

Vijay Seshadri

#54. We might be all alone in the world, en effet, but that doesn't mean we have to be lonely.

Aria Beth Sloss

#55. I've finally gotten to a point in my life where I'm not afraid to speak. Where my shadow no longer haunts me. And I don't want to lose that freedom
not again. I can't go backward. I'd rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.

Tahereh Mafi

#56. We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.

Ayn Rand

#57. I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

Paul Theroux

#58. Human hands are great for waving hello, waving goodbye, and for making love alone in front of a cheering audience of paying spectators.

Jarod Kintz

#59. A voice alone in the wilderness is a beautiful thing.

John Arnold

#60. Xav!
Got you. Not letting you go.
I realised I wasn't alone in mental deep space; he had always been there and could pilot me home.

Joss Stirling

#61. When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness,
there are three things that can show you the way:
instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation,
creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.

Toba Beta

#62. I know it feels like it, but you're not alone in your pain. Shed it. Write a story. And we'll tell you that our pain is the same.

Ksenia Anske

#63. The point is in life, in life alone - in discovering it, constantly and eternally, and not at all in the discovery itself!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#64. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

William Shatner

#65. Alone in the hallway, Celaena watched the shadows cast by the torches. It hadn't been the mere impossibility of a relationship with Ilias that had made her pull away.
No; it was the memory of Sam's face that had stopped her from kissing him.

Sarah J. Maas

#66. Too many people try to assuage pain that can never be eradicated. All you can do is salute the grief, acknowledge that you carry it, too, and that even though we all travel that path alone, we are not alone in traveling it.

M.J. Rose

#67. I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city.

Kate Klise

#68. You are never alone in your struggle. You can overcome any struggle with courage and hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#69. Sweetheart, Is today the day you run away alone in fear? Or the day you have the balls to trust in our friendship? Trust in the four of us. Together

Scarlett Dawn

#70. My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever interrupt me.

Ann Tyler

#71. But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

Joseph Conrad

#72. Life has thought me that I am always alone in war; I have to fight for myself; and it is the best cause.

M.F. Moonzajer

#73. At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up robot.

Ernest Cline

#74. Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

N. T. Wright

#75. What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Liza Minnelli

#76. Chase was gone then, and Donnie was back, alone in his room, wondering about those pictures from an art book he'd so admired. Because it felt like he'd just lived one, and it had been beautiful, so beautiful, and he'd been able to reach out and touch the lines of it, but it still hurt.

Amy Lane

#77. When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

Sampha

#78. The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

Michel De Montaigne

#79. Never again, he thought, would he be alone in the dark.

Nalini Singh

#80. By nature, I sit alone in a room and type ... My goal was never celebrity.

Jenji Kohan

#81. Men who are cut off, careful, and closed are also lonely and just as vulnerable in a different way as their wives alone in a dark alley after midnight.

James MacDonald

#82. I believed that I was alone in my struggle and that my battle was one of survival. By

Dave Pelzer

#83. The only really free artist is the one who sings all alone in the shower.

Marty Rubin

#84. Most people put off my mother's erratic behavior to the fact that she was a writer, as if that just explained everything. To me that was just an excuse. I mean, brain surgeons can be crazy too, but no one says that's all right. Fortunately for my mother, I am alone in this opinion.

Sarah Dessen

#85. I like to say I sit alone in my room, and I fight the language. I am wildly obsessive. I can't let something go if I think it's wrong.

Alan Furst

#86. Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another,
which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man.

Rudyard Kipling

#87. I'll be your mess, you be mine
That was the deal that we had signed
I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste
Gas masks, gloves, to keep us safe
But now I'm alone in an empty room
Staring down immaculate doom
Messy

Gayle Forman

#88. I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.

Margaret Fuller

#89. There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

Kami Garcia

#90. The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what happens between people when we recognize the absurdity of the belief that we're alone in anything.

Brene Brown

#91. 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

#92. If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

Linda Darling-Hammond

#93. Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world ...

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Brandon Stanton

#95. According to the New Testament, the church is primarily a body of people who profess and give evidence that they have been saved by God's grace alone, for His glory alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

Mark Dever

#96. A sort of intimacy is forged when someone reads your book and both you and your reader wind up less alone in the world.

Kerry Cohen

#97. The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.

Noam Chomsky

#98. With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#99. Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.

Patrick Rothfuss

#100. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling,

John Green