Top 100 Quotes About Left Alone
#1. She left me alone in the riddle. I needed her because I loved her - or I loved her because I needed her. Why had the feelings turned to a maze? Now I was lost in the dark.
M. Pierce
#2. 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
#3. It's not that I mind being alone, not really. I can distract myself with silly fantasies and daydreams for hours, but in the end it always comes back to me. That's what I'm left with: just me. And that's what scares me more than anything. Me.
Cat Clarke
#4. I'm impressed you left to keep everyone safe." He tenderly massaged the area above my hipbone with his right thumb.
"I've seen vampire men cry and piss their pants after one hour in the sewers by themselves. You've been walking most of the day and all alone.
Kenya Wright
#5. Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
Scott Westerfeld
#6. The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
Marian Wright Edelman
#7. He knew for a fact that he was so hopelessly bad at seeing through camouflage that, if left alone in the forest, he might even attempt to make fire by rubbing two snakes together.
Sorin Suciu
#8. Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.
Emily Giffin
#10. Sometimes people, when left alone, can hear their own hatefulness for themselves. Sometimes goodness is enough to expose evil for what it really is.
Sylvain Reynard
#11. Reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
Ann Patchett
#12. I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.
Sarah McLachlan
#13. Left me here to cry alone with a bottle of juice and pork chop bone.
Frank Zappa
#14. I wanted to forget you, too," Sage said morosely. "Even now, I still do. With you right here in front of me. Even after last night. It still hurts to think about when you left. How it felt to be so alone. How much I don't want to care about you anymore.
Sibylla Matilde
#15. I don't want to fight for the people, I don't want to fight against the people, I don't want to hear of the people. I want to be left alone - to live.
Ayn Rand
#16. I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
Libba Bray
#18. Aw, I'm not going to give up that easily," he smiled. "You're the one who started it. You shouldn't have kissed me like that if you wanted to be left alone.
Audrey Bell
#19. 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
#20. everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--
alone, waiting for the things that stay.
AVA.
#21. I never thought I'd get married," I told Boy as he poured for us. Scotch spilled into the squat glasses with reassuring lapping noises. "I should have left well enough alone." "You don't need to explain.
Paula McLain
#22. There was only one thing I wanted: to be left alone, without too many demand upon my person, so that for a few moments each day I might be allowed to assuage my hunger.
Muriel Barbery
#23. Lookin' at ye is like baskin' in the summer sun after a long, cold winter. 'Tis like seein' home after a battle that's left ye empty and alone." He kissed her mouth, her nose, her eyes. "I dinna' know how 'tis possible, but each time I see ye, ye grow more beautiful to me.
Paula Quinn
#24. Here in the Motor City, we take an almost perverse pride in doing things the hard way, or whatever way that means we can be left alone to do our thing however we want.
Anna Clark
#25. She tried to recall quarrels she'd had with men. Young men: lovers. But none had been anything like this, provoked by something so innocent and trivial. None had been so one-sided. None had left her feeling so frightened and helpless. So alone.
Anonymous
#26. I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read
Elizabeth Knox
#27. People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.
Joanne Harris
#28. 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
#29. But I've learned in my life that not everything that happens needs to be talked about. Some things are better left alone.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#30. Peaceful, honest people have the right to be left alone.
Sam Harris
#31. So I drank every night after work, alone, up at my place and I had enough left for a day at the track on Saturday, and life was simple and without too much pain. Maybe without too much reason, but getting away from pain was reasonable enough.
Charles Bukowski
#32. I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
Laura Marling
#33. Somehow, it seems like in the end, I was the only person left behind, all alone.
Ai Yazawa
#34. Who are you when you're alone? When no one is watching? What's left then?
Rae Mariz
#35. 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
#36. Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tackle that shed, not for any price she could afford. But crying relieved her and she soon felt quite cheerful again. It was ridiculous to brood, she told herself.
Jean Rhys
#38. The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.
Stephen King
#39. If a man fights with truth, in time, he will be victorious. If he fights with lies, after he is exposed; in time, he will be left alone.
Tonny K. Brown
#40. There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.
Robert Breault
#41. And if I'd be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I'd find new gifts and thrive. At the end of a long trail and the beginning of the rest of my life, I was committed to always loving myself. I would put myself in that win-win situation.
Aspen Matis
#42. Ah, what balance is needed at the edges of such an abyss. I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet. What to do but, like Michelangelo 's Adam, put my hand out into unknown space, hoping for the reciprocating touch?
R.S. Thomas
#43. every dream she had ever had, like delicious fruits, and then left her alone to discover that every one was poisoned.
Sabrina Philips
#44. It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.
Vin Scully
#45. Fear drives us to do many things in our lives. For me, the fear of losing a loved one, and all those terrifying thoughts of what it's like to be left behind and feel alone, drove me to conceive
Cecelia Ahern
#46. She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.
Willa Cather
#47. We both were there, but alone. "Bye," she said and left; I was alone; again, one more time.
Vikrmn
#48. Finding a partner who understands the vicissitudes of travel is challenging. A nomadic life fosters inconsistencies and contradictions within you - a vacillation between loneliness and needing desperately to be left alone.
Carrie Brownstein
#49. All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above
Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
Vikram Seth
#50. A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.
Dana Gould
#51. I was left alone again, with food that I didn't want but needed, and thoughts that I didn't need but wanted.
Karina Halle
#52. The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.
Stephen Hawking
#53. The passion for being for ever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible. I can entertain myself quite well for weeks together, hardly aware, except for the pervading peace, that I have been alone at all.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#54. Warren threatened my life if I left you alone," he said.
"Really?" I asked surprised.
He laughed and nodded his head. "Yea. First, I threatened to kill him. Now he's threatened to kill me. I think we've reached the first level of friendship.
Elicia Hyder
#55. Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.
Robert Genn
#56. And what was I panicking about anyway? Being left alone with myself? I'd rather have a vampire around?
Well. Yes.
Robin McKinley
#57. Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that?
Artemus Withers
#58. Left alone, I was passive; repulsed, I withdrew; forgotten - my lips would not utter, nor my eyes dart a reminder.
Charlotte Bronte
#59. You're not alone, unless you choose to be." As she left my room, she said over her shoulder, "It's time to stop running.
H.M. Ward
#60. I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
Haruki Murakami
#61. I've been alone since my mom met Scott.
He sucked the nectar from her heart
like a famished butterfly. No nurture,
no nourishment left for Kristina.
A vacation is a poor substitute
for love.
Ellen Hopkins
#62. I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.
Hans Frank
#63. Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.
Stanley Hoffmann
#64. Am I not peaceful? We want to be free - completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone.
Sukarno
#65. Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.
Robert Anton Wilson
#66. Death
It does not happen to the dead alone
Those left behind, die too
In parts that would never heal and come back to life
(Page 14)
Neena Verma
#67. My fear of standing alone often pressures me to stand with a rather unsavory group that embraces a rather unsettling belief system which leaves me wondering why I left the promises of God for the company of people.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#68. I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that somebody would come into the office and see us sitting there, two matching rejects in matching orange chairs.
Michael Chabon
#69. The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.
Rush Limbaugh
#70. For years that's been the buzzword of the house: Sam just wants to be left alone... ...Things change after you die, though -- I guess because dying is about the loneliest thing you can do.
Lauren Oliver
#71. He left her a note in her right slipper that said when I was alone yesterday I was happy, and I wanted you to know. Because look at how much you've done in me.
Mikl Paul
#72. It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.
Jello Biafra
#73. Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.
Swami Vivekananda
#74. Other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of a cupboard.
John Boyne
#75. People only picked the pretty, sweet-smelling flowers. The ones with thorns were left alone.
Nenia Campbell
#77. The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library
Maya Angelou
#79. He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
Patrick Suskind
#80. Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on.
Billy Connolly
#81. To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.
Anthony Trollope
#82. We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very dark and dreary world.
Robert D. Hales
#83. A fearsome reputation will someday mean less of this bullshit. People and things will get so they won't dare mess with me. Crazy violent sociopaths get left alone. Or locked up. I nodded. Yeah, that's the down side.
Morgan Blayde
#84. Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do.
David Almond
#85. Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.
Andrew Wyeth
#86. Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
Friedrich List
#87. I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.
Ashwin Sanghi
#88. Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret must be known:
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.
Robert Frost
#89. I examined the ten feet I would have to walk alone and remembered my left mind made me a moron.
Ashlan Thomas
#90. You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present ... you are not alone.
Douglas Wilson
#91. I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone.
Adam Silvera
#92. He tried to make each painting capture that gently fuzzed qualit the camera gave everything, as if someone had patted away a top layer of clarity and left behind something kinder than the eye alone would see.
Hanya Yanagihara
#93. I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.
Claire Danes
#94. And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.
Max Muller
#95. At the back of the room, the exiled prince gets to his feet. He holds my gaze, as if his eyes alone could set me on fire. A waste. There is nothing in me left to burn.
Victoria Aveyard
#96. A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#97. You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.
Robert Breault
#98. But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to ...
Sanhita Baruah
#99. My walking powers were evidently miraculous, I was presently left alone for the first time. With a strange sense of freedom and adventure I pushed on up to the crest.
H.G.Wells
#100. Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.
Kirsten Olson