Quotes About Alone In The World

#1. The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.

Anthony Trollope

#2. After such an emotional day with her own parents, the thought nearly brought Luce to her knees with sadness. Daniel was alone in the world.

Lauren Kate

#3. No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend,* the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died.

Anthony Trollope

#4. Without him, [Nate] she was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into bottomless darkness ...

Cassandra Clare

#5. If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the faith in nature which is inherent in the profession to a faith in man-if necessary, man alone in the world.

Edward Hoagland

#6. As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

Tom Cochrane

#7. We walk alone in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. He was beyond damaged. He was broken. Smashed to bloody pieces. He was alone in the world without the one person who could make him whole. And he always would be.

Jennifer Donnelly

#9. Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.

Augusten Burroughs

#10. To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world
without friends or country, home or kindred.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#11. All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

Deborah Moggach

#12. Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

Soren Kierkegaard

#13. He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.

Charles Frazier

#14. It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

Emily Bronte

#15. Alexander looked into the barrel of one of the guns. He blinked.
O God, please look after Tania all alone in the world.

Paullina Simons

#16. In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

Naoki Higashida

#18. I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.

Maggie Stiefvater

#19. I would be his rock when his reason floated away. And he would be the person I needed to remind me that I was no longer alone in the world.

Belle Aurora

#20. [A]fter all it was true that a girl does not go alone in the world unchallenged, nor ever has gone freely alone in the world, that evil walks abroad and dangers, and petty insults more irritating than dangers, lurk.

H.G.Wells

#21. He was alone in the world, and the world was Natalie. Usually

David Foenkinos

#22. The sense of community is that feeling of togetherness that brings us comfort. We are all alone in the world, so we strive to form bonds with others to eliminate that sense of feeling alone.

Del Suggs

#23. I'm completely alone in the world; it frightens me to be so empty and lost.

Henrik Ibsen

#24. We want playing our games to entertain people on many different levels. Deeper down, I want to make a connection with the player, and it's the way, to me, of saying to the person playing the game that they're not alone in the world.

Tim Schafer

#25. I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'

Wendy Cope

#26. It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love ... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world.

Kristin Hannah

#27. I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#28. He looks into my eyes for several intense seconds, watching me like I'm all he sees. And he's all I see. For this moment, it seems we are completely alone in the world, each wholly consumed by the other. Nothing else exists.

M. Leighton

#29. Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.

Sid Lovett

#30. There is so much crap in the world, both in show and other businesses, that I try to be vulnerable myself, in the hopes that there is some truth I can get to, that makes people feel less alone in the world.

Charlie Kaufman

#31. Connecting with others is rewarding; it makes us feel like we're not alone in the world.

Jonah Berger

#32. Without a family,man,alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Andre Maurois

#33. Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.

Eric Berne

#34. Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.

Otto Weininger

#35. Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Edward Sapir

#36. Film makes me feel less alone in the world.

A.D. Posey

#37. We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.

Daphne Du Maurier

#38. In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world.

Jane Austen

#39. She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.

John Cheever

#40. They carry their past in them as though safekeeping it for someone else. Very often they look at me and say, poor thing. They say I have lost a mother and am alone in the world. They feel compassion for me, for a loss that comes to all; they disregard their own extraordinary suffering.

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

#41. You know what, coat hanger, I know that you're alone in the world right now and I know it's not easy, but I want you to know that one day you are gonna hold some clothes.

John Green

#42. If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.

Giacomo Casanova

#43. I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are deserted, just because a colored lightbulb told me to. Society has got me so fucking trained. I rubbed my eyes and groaned and felt utterly alone in the world.

David Wong

#44. We've been here dozen of times since we met, but this precious month before the baby is born feels like a last first date. There's a different kind of romance beginning. We will never again be entirely alone in the world

Elizabeth Bard

#45. One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country. It struck Lib now how alone in the world she was.

Emma Donoghue

#46. As the late afternoon sun shone in Shaw's face and a soft flower-scented wind cooled him, his unhappiness turned to a detachment that was not at all unpleasant. He was utterly alone in the world. This knowledge thrilled him.

Gore Vidal

#47. When humility enters our souls, we are at last able to perceive that we do not live alone in the world but with millions of brothers and sisters, and that hidden in the heart of each is the same animating spirit.

Uell Stanley Andersen

#48. Sometimes I feel so alone in the world. A tiny speck of nothing in a sea of emptiness.

Edwyna Hughes

#49. 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

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

Jamaica Kincaid

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

Alexander Smith

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

Melody Anne

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

Aria Beth Sloss

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. [My first children's book] is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message in there [about how] we're all somehow connected and we all have a responsibility toward each other. Although you may feel alone in the world, you definitely are not.

Gloria Estefan

#59. The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.

Lemony Snicket

#60. I am alone in the world, Dolores, and I am homesick for my own kind.

Kate DiCamillo

#61. Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.

D.H. Lawrence

#62. Sitting in the deserted law offices, Sanders had the feeling that he was all alone in the world, with nobody but Fernandez and the encoraching darkness. Things were happening quickly; this person he had never met before today was fast becoming a kind of lifeline for him.

Michael Crichton

#63. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#64. He pondered his turmoil, wondering which he feared most - losing his father or being alone in the world. Both were inevitable. Neither could be stopped or slowed down. All he could do now was brace for impact.

Brent Jones

#65. Maybe, just maybe, a reader would feel a little less alone in the world.

Lisa Schroeder

#66. He'd gone into their marriage determined that she would never be alone again. In the end,
she'd made him as alone in the world as she.

Sherry Thomas

#67. Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Elie Wiesel

#68. Knowing that somewhere in the world there is someone who cares what you wore, an insignificant detail of your life that would seem unimportant to anyone else, makes you feel more connected to that person and less alone in the world.

Deborah Tannen

#69. Sometimes all it took was one event to show you how alone in the world you were.

Damian Stevenson

#70. But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

Sarah Dessen

#71. Our correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once opened, a connection is made. We are not alone in the world.

Terry Tempest Williams

#72. I have always felt that books help me feel less alone in the world. They make our lives bigger - they help us to feel feelings we wouldn't otherwise feel and to understand feelings that we don't have a framework for.

Lisa Lucas

#73. I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.

Bryan Singer

#74. Let not the jolly be alone in the world, for they shall talk about the future and snag to do the exercises.

Auliq Ice

#75. You are not alone in the world. You are part of an ensemble.

Rich Mullins

#76. The Baudelaire orphans looked worriedly out the window. They weren't very happy about just being dropped off in a strange place, as if they were a pizza being delivered instead of three children all alone in the world.

Lemony Snicket

#77. I can't believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice.

Anne Rice

#78. Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#79. I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.

Nicolaus Zinzendorf

#80. The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no business on earth. They do not labour, but by contemplation alone they already live in heaven.

Anthony Of Padua

#81. If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.

Hakim Ibn Hizam

#82. When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

John Cage

#83. We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#84. It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.

James Clavell

#85. Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

#86. And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have cried from the bottom of my heart.

Joseph Von Eichendorff

#87. When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.

Elizabeth Taylor

#88. CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.

Jason Calacanis

#89. The arts world prides itself on its diversity, inclusivity, open-mindedness and constant efforts to reach out to all. Yet at the very moment when Britain decides its future, hardly anyone in the arts seems to understand, let alone agree with, the opinion of at least half the population.

Richard Morrison

#90. I had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it. No one in the world knew where I was, no one had the ability to reach me. It was like being dead, my escape allowing me to taste that tremendous power my mother possessed forever.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#91. Are you like him?" she asked. "Who?" "Timido. Alone out there in the dark world." "Sometimes. Everybody is sometimes.

Michael Connelly

#92. But O, sick children of the world,
Of all the many changing things
In dreary dancing past us whirled,
To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
Words alone are certain good.

William Butler Yeats

#93. The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place where she could take the next step: ask for some clarifying word; some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.

Toni Morrison

#94. To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Freya Stark

#95. In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.

Tom Morello

#96. Myths remind us of the symbolic presence within all the lost-and-found adventures that alone can give life meaning. Losing touch with the world of myth means losing the sense that life is deeply meaningful, full of meanings trying to be revealed at each twist and turn in the ongoing drama.

Michael Meade

#97. 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

#98. Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#99. Whether Neil left today or tomorrow or next week, he'd leave alone. Two, five, ten years from now, if Neil was even still alive, he'd still be alone. He could be anyone, anywhere in the world, but he'd be alone until the day he died. He'd never trust anyone enough to let them in.

Nora Sakavic

#100. 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