Top 100 Are We Alone Quotes
#1. The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?
Paul Davies
#2. The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?
Terence McKenna
#3. Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?
Garik Israelian
#4. You're the answer to are we alone in the universe?
Jonathan Kent
#5. Part of what drives us to explore and discover is the intangible: expanding our horizons, feeding our curiosity, finding all those unexpected things, and trying to answer those profound questions discussed in previous chapters, like how did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone?
Nancy Atkinson
#6. "Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it has been in the province of religion and philosophy. Fifty or something years ago, however, it became part of science.
Paul Davies
#7. Modern life. Where are we running? Sometimes what we want is not always where we are ... Are we alone? Is the real winter inside our hearts? We are all struggling for definition in a world that resists our increase.
Aziz Ansari
#8. Are we alone in an uncaring universe, or is God some kind of wiseguy?
Matt Groening
#9. That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#10. People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development.
Dimitar Sasselov
#11. People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.
Eoin Colfer
#12. Meantime, when once we know from nothing still
Nothing can be create, we shall divine
More clearly what we seek: those elements
From which alone all things created are,
And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
Lucretius
#13. We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
Marianne Williamson
#14. We are not facing China alone; we are facing China together with a lot of other people in the region.
Tsai Ing-wen
#15. When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
Mitch Albom
#16. 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
#17. We are never alone God will always be with us.
Edwin Medina
#18. [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#19. Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.
Barack Obama
#20. We mourn for the dead, but it's a selfish act. It may be a tragedy that so many young lives are lost to us, but it's our tragedy alone because they are at peace.
Jenny Penn
#21. It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.
Kristen Lamb
#22. Nobody says these things - it's against the rules - but deep inside we know that we are, each of us, unknowable and ultimately alone, even when we love. Most
Adrian Barnes
#23. We are always alone. We are never alone. Even in the center of a crowd of friends , we cannot escape our apartness; even in the locked and darkened room, we cannot cut ourselves off from our sense of the life going on outside.
Lester M. Schulman
#24. All of us just want to help you. You're not alone."
Christin didn't say anything but Eddie could sense his acquiescence by the dip of his head, the slight relaxing of his shoulders. Eddie patted his hand.
"We are more than our experiences. We are the sum of them, and more." He said.
Micaela Vee
#25. Ben, schizophrenia alone disables more people for a longer time than cancer. Hundreds of thousands of people are confined to hospitals. We can't turn our backs on them or burn them as witches because of a chemical imbalance in the brain." He
Nora Roberts
#26. I'm NOT used to it! But ... I'm not as scared as I was before. Getting rejected is painful, but there are also people who accept me. We aren't alone, you know. And that's why we have nothing to be afraid of.
Sakura Tsukuba
#27. I have been being careful since the first minute I saw you. I am the Queen of Carefulness. I shall go on being careful for ever, if you like - so long as I might be a bit reckless, sometimes, when we are quite alone
Sarah Waters
#28. When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.
Virginia H. Pearce
#29. leave this alone, are you?" "Nope," I smiled. "Fine," he agreed, "we'll get a tree and some decorations, whatever
Micalea Smeltzer
#30. We all have our moments of being fed up ... but give me your hand and I'll hold it. If you are being bullied I am thinking of you. You are not alone and it will get better. Don't let them win. It's okay not to be okay.
Jessie J.
#31. I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.
Deborah Kass
#32. We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one more wretchedly alone than the priest who does not measure up to his task.
Shusaku Endo
#33. Many of us feel alone and assaulted by the meaninglessness of what we are doing. But, at such times, we are doing; the problem is not a lack of activity with a point, but rather questions about the point of the activity.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
#34. You have spent your whole life believing such untrue things. Don't you know how alone you are, David? We are most alone when we are with the myths.
Nadeem Aslam
#35. Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.
Banana Yoshimoto
#36. We seek out other people to fight off the loneliness but it's like we're children playing at pretend. We are alone in everything we do, Livy. Alone but not without company.
Shari Arnold
#37. We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
Charles Bukowski
#38. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six; we were of that disposition
Nick Hornby
#40. We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.
Hannah More
#41. We are pursued (persecuted and hard driven), but not deserted [to stand alone]; we are struck down to the ground, but never struck out and destroyed;
Anonymous
#42. We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.
Jennifer Niven
#43. We were born alone, and we will die alone. But while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of faith through other people.
Paulo Coelho
#44. What a mess are we in now! We! I only wish it was we: it is horrible being all alone.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#45. This is the secret of the stars, I tell myself. In the end, we are alone. No matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you. ~ Amy
Beth Revis
#46. We are not creatures designed to be alone. We can get by on our own, that's true, but I don't want to get by. I want to touch the clouds." ~ Maggie
Pamela Sparkman
#47. [On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.
Martha Gellhorn
#48. We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
Martin Luther
#49. Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.
Scott Stapp
#50. In solitude, when we are least alone.
Lord Byron
#51. We are on the same journey
same path
same confusing struggle
no longer venturing it alone
accepting one another
embracing one another.
Roeau Vetrano
#52. We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.
Charles Spurgeon
#53. We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#54. We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#55. I'm glad we're not alone, but don't like that there are a lot of people. It's kind of problematic.
Jessica Sorensen
#56. We may not be of the same blood, but we are brothers. Every Warrior here is my brethren. Doona carry your burdens alone. They will eventually bury you.
Donna Grant
#57. What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.
Eric Hoffer
#58. Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
Wendell Berry
#59. It is not easy to shut out the world, set aside a few minutes by yourself, and spend time in God's Word and prayer. But it is essential if we are to grow in our relationship with God and be strengthened for the battles ahead. Don't delay. Begin now to spend time alone with God every day.
Billy Graham
#60. Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone
Margaret J. Wheatley
#61. It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. ... We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.
Henry David Thoreau
#62. The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others
existences which the spirit alone remembers, for matter has no memory for spiritual things.
Honore De Balzac
#63. There are so many ways to live, to define what living means for you and you alone. We are so narrow in our thinking, and once you understand that, once you decide to not abide by these artificial constraints, anything is possible and you are so liberated
Gayle Forman
#64. We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.
Max DePree
#65. Yeah, it's so popular it's almost legal. The customers are torn between needing someone and wanting to be alone at the same time, which has probably always been the name of that particular game, even before we had the neuroelectronics to enable them to have it both ways.
William Gibson
#66. This is a book about lost faith and blaming God when He allows bad things to happen to good people. But, it is also about the wounds we carry around with us when we fail to make a diiference when a difference was needed, whether real or perceived. But there is hope for us all! We are NOT alone!
Norman Whaler
#68. If we an become still and open-minded, we might all feel the unseen comforting hand on our shoulder letting us know we are not alone.
June Matthews
#69. Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.
Charles Simic
#70. We have souls. And guardian angels. We are never alone. I feel so comforted knowing this.
Zoe McLellan
#71. Sometimes the path we must walk is long and must be traveled alone. Even when others are by our side, there is no one with us.
L.J. Baker
#72. We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.
Ramana Maharshi
#73. We each sit alone, staring at this black screen with a whole range of emotions. But in a strange way, we are all doing it together, and we should take solace in the fact that no one has a clue what's going on. I
Aziz Ansari
#74. With every prayer and every thought of love, we release
the light that will cast out darkness. One light alone seems
small and weak, but no one's light is ever alone, for all our
lights are part of God.
Marianne Williamson
#75. Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.
Thomas L. Dumm
#76. You never think it's gonna happen to you, but all that pollution and dirty fumes and flights and factories and shit we don't need and suddenly there you are, a stupid girl sitting alone on some steps, waiting to see if your family is ever coming back.
Saci Lloyd
#77. Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)
Brene Brown
#78. We don't become saints by our actions. We are made saints by the immediate supernatural action of the Holy Spirit alone who works this change deep within our inner being so that we do, in fact, become new creations in Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:17).
Jerry Bridges
#79. We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time. Those who know how to search, find and make the connections will succeed. Those who rely on static knowledge and skills alone will fail.
Charles Jennings
#80. We believe growth and learning are uncomfortable so it's going to happen here - you're going to feel that way. We want you to know that it's normal and it's an expectation here. You're not alone and we ask that you stay open and lean into it.
Brene Brown
#81. How about we make a date to do nothing but curl up together after school alone and Roku a Big Bang Theory marathon." I grinned at him. "No one but me knows what a dork you truly are." "I need to laugh, and Sheldon makes me laugh.
P.C. Cast
#82. All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess. Look, being a lame flunky for a batshit crazy person isn't all that bad. Stay alive long enough and you may sneak your way to Washington!
Martin Van Buren
#83. We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.
Gregory Of Nazianzus
#84. Kings of the land and the sky we are; proud gryphons. Stalker stands, the epitome of pride. Naked and muscular, his wings widen and his feet dig in as if he alone holds down the earth and supports the heavens, keeping the two ever separate.
Elizabeth Munro
#85. We're friends because when girls - women - are alone in this world, they're easier to pick off
Sarah Nicole Lemon
#86. the brilliant balance of the gospel that Luther so persistently expounded - "We are saved by faith alone, but not by faith which is alone.
Eric Metaxas
#87. When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.
Ronald Anthony Cross
#88. What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover ... we are not alone.
Michael Harner
#89. The sea slapped ominously, confessing its strategic impartiality. The sea is an international sea, and the sky a universal sky. Often we forget that. Often we think that what is verging upon us is ours alone. We forget that there are other sides entirely.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#90. Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization, people will usually question the use of a picture. Things are estimated much more for what they do or will do than for what they are or will become ...
Paul Outerbridge
#91. Not only are we not alone, we are a thread in a great tapestry that is rich, because we exist.
Lynne Cockrum-Murphy
#92. Alone we are fine; but when we're two, we are eternal. The moons have aligned our separate lives; here become one and you would be the last thing I saw coming.
Chrissy Anderson
#93. We accept gods that don't speak to us. We accept gods that would place us in a world filled with injustices and do nothing as we struggle. It's easier than accepting that there's nothing out there at all, and that, in our darkest moments, we are truly alone.
Lauren DeStefano
#94. We travel not for trafficking alone;
By hotter winds our hearts are fanned:
For lust of knowing what should not be known
We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
James Elroy Flecker
#95. The old saying is true: "We are saved by faith alone, but saving faith is never alone." If you belong to God, you will persevere in doing good. You will not be perfect, but you will persevere with patience.
James Johnston
#96. The fact is, with the exception of our own minds, no power on earth has the consistent and absolute ability to convince us that we are wrong. However much we might be prompted by cues from other people or our environment, the choice to face up to error is ultimately ours alone.
Kathryn Schulz
#97. On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.
Carl Sagan
#98. Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we're still alone ... each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.
John Green
#99. there is something in us from God that knows we are not alone in the universe, and that we were not meant to go it alone. Prayer is a natural human instinct.
Timothy J. Keller
#100. While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable.
George Washington
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