Top 100 Quotes About Left Alone
#1. Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.
Kendall Jenner
#2. Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#3. I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.
Catherine Stock
#4. Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose - though we may not understand it - and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!
Margaret Weis
#5. We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
Leo Buscaglia
#6. What's the trick to remembering that a sandwich is masculine? What qualities does it share with anyone in possession of a penis? I'll tell myself that a sandwich is masculine because if left alone for a week or two, it will eventually grow a beard.
David Sedaris
#7. and Ivan Ilyich was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and that this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being. With
Leo Tolstoy
#8. My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can regulate all mankind and get wrong ideas which they believe to be panaceas for every ill cause much trouble to both employers and employees by their interference.
Jay Gould
#9. Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.
Ashley Judd
#10. I couldn't bear the thought of even your face here, left alone, for only the jungle to admire." He shook his head. "Never. I'd never allow it. The only thing is to hire an artist to turn you into a figurehead for a ship, so some part of you will always be venturing out where you belong.
Alexandra Bracken
#11. One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
Ahmed H. Zewail
#12. Ungrace causes cracks to fissure open between mother and daughter, father and son, brother and sister, between scientists, and prisoners, and tribes, and races. Left alone, cracks widen, and for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness.
Philip Yancey
#13. Maybe their whole army was just made up of players. Except Ator'aq, Olivia noticed. He had made the rounds in the bar, but he left alone, to the visible disappointment of pretty much every female in the bar and the relief of every male.
Calista Skye
#14. The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.
Terry Crews
#15. I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire ...
Marcel Proust
#16. Left alone with the dial tone ... excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?
Melina Marchetta
#17. In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
Sugata Mitra
#18. When left alone with nothing but one's emotions and inner thoughts for company, the nocturnal world can be completely overpowering.
Fennel Hudson
#21. The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - "
"When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like this was delightful information. "Augustus commissioned it."
"Yes," Zia said.
"Fascinating," I murmured. "Would you two like to be left alone with a history textbook?
Rick Riordan
#22. I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'
Adoniram Judson
#23. The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which, as their later history was also to illustrate, may be the most difficult request any minority can make of a majority culture.
Anne Fadiman
#24. I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.
Jay Leno
#25. Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.
Ovid
#26. The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
Eric Hoffer
#27. Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
Fiona Apple
#28. The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.
Lara Santoro
#29. As a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.
Charles Bukowski
#30. God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throve
Falls off, and love is left alone.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#31. Left alone, the Florida panther would be remembered as a textbook exercise on how to go extinct while your abundant and vociferous advocates argue about the process.
Stephen J. O'Brien
#32. I am left alone with the beautiful dark coal black eyes, pale white skin, dark wavy hair man and I CAN'T BREATHE!
R.L. Mankin
#33. People who are left alone tell the story but are never a part of it; those who are a part of the crowd, are story bound, acting upon the role assigned to them in the theater of living, loving and longing.
Aporva Kala
#34. I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get charged with perjury strictly for political purposes.
Mark Fuhrman
#35. The truly sacred attitude toward life is in no sense an escape from the sense of nothingness that assails us when we are left alone with ourselves.
Thomas Merton
#36. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
Alexander McCall Smith
#37. I'm not antisocial. I just want to be left alone." ~ Roland
Dianne Duvall
#39. If left alone in labor, the body of a woman produces most easily the baby that is not interfered with by its mother's mind or the assistant's hand. If left alone, just courage and patience are required.
Grantly Dick-Read
#40. There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.
Griffin Jay
#41. You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.
Judy Garland
#43. How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?
Fiona Apple
#44. He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
Will Rogers
#45. Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone ... will furnish us with a number of very important uses ... If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land.
Olaus Murie
#46. Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.
Jimmy Sangster
#47. For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation.
Douglas Adams
#48. Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.
David Levithan
#49. Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.
Andy Rooney
#50. Vic stared at her, incredulous. "What do you mean you don't know why?" Vic asked her. "He isn't coming home because of you, Mom. Because he can't stand you. Because all you ever do is bitch at him, stand there and bitch when he's tired and wants to be left alone.
Joe Hill
#51. Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.
George Harrison
#52. Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.
Firoozeh Dumas
#53. Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
John Sterling
#54. Imperfects are funny, lovable and perfect to be happy. Perfects are appreciated and left alone everytime!!!.
Nelson Jack
#55. they were left alone. "So what are you doing here?" Karel asked, his smile turning into a frown. "Shouldn't you be off mating your queen, showing her off to
Milly Taiden
#56. When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
Anna Letitia Barbauld
#57. And I'm left alone with my "strength," staring at the ceiling.
Paulo Coelho
#58. I just ... I've fantasized about peace and quiet for so long, dreamt about being left alone ... but when the TV was off, and the sun was down ... I'm in a full sob right now. I've just never felt so alone, and I couldn't take it.
Andrea Randall
#59. Being left alone - and I am being left alone - isn't quite as much what I wanted as I thought. Is this how people become evil? I don't want to be.
Jo Walton
#60. I could make it. I could win drinking contests, I could gamble. Maybe I could pull a few holdups. I didn't ask much, just to be left alone.
Charles Bukowski
#61. I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.
Albert Einstein
#62. I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
Imogen Heap
#63. Amazing what humans, even ones as wanton as Frank Ache, crave when left alone - other humans.
Harlan Coben
#64. The gradual and imperceptible subsidence of the waters, that's the alluvium. Thus am I gradually left alone, thus have I been left alone.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#65. We, all of us, must be left alone to make good on our own consciences. And no county magistrate or judge or deacon can separate us from the truth, for they are only men.
Kathleen Kent
#66. If you were left alone, you'd hate it. Loneliness gets old in a hurry
Dia Reeves
#67. Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life.
Katharine Graham
#68. I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
#69. What if the new political spectrum has on one side those people who want to be left alone, those who want to be free, those who don't hurt people or take their stuff, and on the other extreme of this new scale stands anyone who wants to use government power to tell you how to live your life?
Matt Kibbe
#70. I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.
Azar Nafisi
#71. Now I'll be left alone, and that's all you want, all you crave out of life: to be left alone while you get on with the business of interfering with others. In
Irvine Welsh
#72. If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.
Henry Ford
#73. he would be left alone to scan the arts section of the paper, and read about other people who were doing the kinds of things he didn't even have the expansiveness, the arrogance of imagination to dream of,
Hanya Yanagihara
#74. It's easier to be me than someone else. But just like most famous people, I just want to be left alone most of the time.
Bob Dylan
#75. I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.
Nelson Gidding
#76. Do you believe that you really have a desire to learn, or would you, had you been left alone from birth, be totally primitive and beastlike in your thoughts and feelings?
William H. Armstrong
#77. So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.
Anna Godbersen
#78. And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.
Anita Loos
#79. She had the top down and I could smell everything in those woods, and you know what an old fine smell that is, like something which has been mostly left alone and is not much troubled.
("Mrs. Todd's Shortcut")
Stephen King
#80. They would fade away-and I would be left alone to face the people at school,and the reporters,and Adriane,and all the places where Max had taken my hand or breathed in my ear or told me he loved me,and the emptiness that used to be Chris.
Robin Wasserman
#81. We see this a lot, people desperate to keep talking because when they stop we will leave and they will be left alone with what has happened.
Tana French
#82. It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
Billy Idol
#83. Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.
Wendy Kopp
#84. I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
Mary Oliver
#85. There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.
James St. James
#86. Some wounds need to be pricked so they can drain. Others just need to be left alone.
Patricia Briggs
#87. People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.
George Bernard Shaw
#88. I love to write and I assure you I write regularly ... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
J.D. Salinger
#89. The arrogance of wanting to be loved had emerged only now it was unreciprocated - I was left alone with my desire, defenseless, beyond the law, shockingly crude in my demands: Love me! And for what reason? I had only the usual paltry, insufficient excuse: Because I love you . .
Alain De Botton
#90. Some things are just sitting there, waiting to be discovered. Other things are probably better off left alone
John Boyne
#91. If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.
Rob Zombie
#92. He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.
D.H. Lawrence
#93. If you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be left alone.
L.M. Montgomery
#94. If you fill your time as a director talking about lights and technique with the crew then it's frightening for the actors to be left alone. Somebody has to keep them safe from the mess that is the machinery.
Pirjo Honkasalo
#95. Mom was just teasing when she asked whether I felt safe being left alone in a haunted house. But now I know: once you move into one, you're never really alone again.
Paige McKenzie
#96. I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone.
Paul Theroux
#97. This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe - and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone. The
Alfred Lansing
#98. Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#99. I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.
Don Henley
#100. The question was how you ignored someone's request to be left alone - even if it meant jeopardizing the friendship. It was a wretched little koan: How can you help someone who won't be helped while realizing that if you don't try to help, then you're not being a friend at all?
Hanya Yanagihara
