Quotes About Standing Alone

#1. What can be quieter than standing alone in a crowd of strangers?

Keri Arthur

#2. You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

K.d. Lang

#3. You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah's help).

Yasmin Mogahed

#4. I know that when I'm standing alone below a thousand-foot wall, looking up and considering a climb, my sponsors are the furthest thing from my mind. If I'm going to take risks, they are going to be for myself - not for any company.

Alex Honnold

#5. I love it that I'm standing alone, it doesn't bother me, actually I prefer it, actually I don't give a shit. I am a superior being in an alien world. No, in a world of red-faced aliens. That thought tickled her, but only for a minute. Mainly she longed to feel that she wasn't invisible.

Delia Ephron

#6. 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

#7. . . . that tense expectation, that proud state of standing alone without
teachings and without teachers, that supple willingness to listen to the
divine voice in his own heart, had slowly become a memory. . .

Hermann Hesse

#8. This was what was wonderful, standing alone in the big, soft night rewriting the past to make myself miss what had never been. Now that it was over, I could turn the past into anything I wanted.

Susanna Kaysen

#9. The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.

Judith Viorst

#10. Very few people stutter when they are standing alone in a room speaking to themselves, so how much did Ted's blindness free him from reacting to the perceptions of others?

Katherine Preston

#11. Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

Jimmy Carter

#12. Faith is such a wonderful thing. Without it, we would be panicky when we feel like we're standing alone and when the things we need and yearn for seem to be beyond our reach.

Ron Brackin

#13. There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It could be the mother of everything. Not knowing its name, I call it Tao.

Laozi

#14. Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. By standing alone,
you prove your courage.
By standing with others,
you prove your love.
By standing with truth,
you prove your virtue.
By standing with God,
you prove your faith.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

Sondre Lerche

#17. Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That's why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.

Kiese Laymon

#18. Facing an enemy on the battlefield took courage, but you had your friends beside you. Standing alone against your friends, that was a different kind of courage.

Joe Abercrombie

#19. The only way to succeed in life is to never give up. Oftentimes, it requires standing alone.

Ellen J. Barrier

#20. The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

Cassandra Clare

#21. You will never feel whole in the presence of your mate if you don't feel whole standing alone.

Debra Fileta

#22. He went to the bar and stood there a while. But he was in the way of people getting their drinks. He moved to the edge of the crowd and just watched. Suddenly it seemed, he was drunk, in a suit that didn't fit, at a party where he didn't know anyone, and he was standing alone.

Melissa Bank

#23. Frank Fay turned into the most consistent stand-up comic of the late 1920s and essentially changed the art form. Crowds and critics eventually came to accept a man standing alone, cracking wise. No longer did Fay bill himself as a 'Nut Monologist.

Kliph Nesteroff

#24. In all my old school pictures I was always the one standing alone in the back with my hair in my face.

Rachel Hawkins

#25. For obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

Aeschylus

#26. Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

Criss Jami

#27. Standing alone scares alot of people it means they have to be themselves and more often than not they haven't the slightest clue who they've been all this time & that's why people stay the same because it's a frightening choice to step away from the crowd.

Nikki Rowe

#28. Haven't you ever seen someone standing alone?
I shrug. Just one.
Why don't you talk to that child?
Because it's me and Devon told me I shouldn't talk to myself. Not in public anyway

Kathryn Erskine

#29. If only.
You got to admit, standing alone those words are pretty awful, but married together like that, they must be two of the saddest in the English language.

Lesley Kagen

#30. Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

Charles Stanley

#31. I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

Peter Paul Rubens

#32. '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

#33. You know a whole lot about romance for a guy who spent the night standing alone by the trash.

Anthony Breznican

#34. More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.

Lewis H. Lapham

#35. Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Coco Chanel

#36. He knew she had been telling the truth when she told him she seldom asked for help. It was clear in her every interaction with him - in her speech , even in the way she held herself- that she was used to standing alone.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#37. Along with the knife I'd been holding in my teeth, and saw you standing alone, looking around the room with big eyes, and I'd never felt so vulnerable. I thought we had a connection. That's why I invited you on a weekday trip to a compound at an unspecified Middle Eastern

Anonymous

#38. A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

Graham Coxon

#39. Like a stand of lodgepole pines in a gale Raisa's followers all went down leaving her standing alone ... There's no shelter for me not from any of this. I'll stand alone the rest of my life. THE GRAY WOLF THRONE p. 163

Cinda Williams Chima

#40. Stand up for what is right even if it means standing alone.

Suzy Kassem

#41. I'm out, surrounded in dark. But in the distance there is a small glow, a tiny light. Suddenly I'm standing alone, the space starting to brighten as the light grows.

Suzanne Young

#42. It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world ... on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.

Anne Rice

#43. Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others.

Frances Moore Lappe

#44. Stand up for what you believe in even if it means standing alone ...

C.M.

#45. Tecumseh recognized that standing alone is never the way. There is strength in numbers.

Summer Lane

#46. Blue Moon,
You saw me standing alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.

Lorenz Hart

#47. Stand up for Truth even it means standing alone.

Suzy Kassem

#48. Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps
Followed each other till a dreary moor
Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top
Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge,
I overlooked the bed of Windermere,
Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.

William Wordsworth

#49. Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.

Susan Sontag

#50. That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

Kristin Hannah

#51. Sometimes standing alone makes you stronger than hiding in a group. When you choose to stand when those close to you are sitting down, it speaks volumes about your integrity and character. It's when those who stand alone come together that the opposite is true.

Lori Goodwin

#52. Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

Mariah Carey

#53. Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

Kristin Hannah

#54. You have to be strong enough to stand up for what you believe, even if you are standing alone.

Bohdi Sanders

#55. Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.

John Fante

#56. As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave ... walking the plank ... willingly ... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.

Morrissey

#57. 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.

#58. I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident; everything happens for a reason. I believe that standing for what you believe in isn't an easy thing but it's the right thing to do; be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

Roy Bennett

#59. I'm sorry if you've ever felt alone even once standing beside me.

Bethany-Kris

#60. Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone ... Alone and lonely have the same root.

Nora Roberts

#61. She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

Carson McCullers

#62. Stand up for what is just against the unjust.

Suzy Kassem

#63. When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

Tori Amos

#64. I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was one of the many inconveniences of this paradox I lived with -the more people I was surrounded by, the more frighteningly alone I felt.

Sarah Silverman

#65. The only person standing between your dreams and your success is none but YOU.. so all you need is to push YOURSELF.. Towards your goals.. to make it happen.

Vikrmn

#66. It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

Gloria Allred

#67. It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

Mahatma Gandhi

#68. Whenever she felt besieged by doubts, she would think of herself as standing valiantly alone, as almost heroic, so as to squash her uncertainty.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#69. The worst is being alone and not having someone with whom I can share life, someone who sees the world from the same narrow ledge I'm standing on and who understands without always having to be explained to.

Nancy Bond

#70. Loneliness doesn't come from being alone, but from being surrounded by people who can't understand you. A deep feeling of isolation comes when you realize that even the person standing right next to you is unreachable.

Anonymous

#71. Stand up for what is fair against the unfair.

Suzy Kassem

#72. The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#73. Faith is believing that there's somebody there to make you stronger. There's somebody there that won't leave you alone; God's always standing by you. That's what that is.

Kyle Petty

#74. When you missed someone you became them, that you did things to fill the space they'd left so you wouldn't feel so alone. Standing

Anna Carey

#75. And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.

Lauren Oliver

#76. I didn't answer him and didn't open my eyes, and there was a moment of perfect vertigo, when I heard the whooshing of the surf again and felt I was part of it, swirling with it and also standing still, swept up an sewn into the sea and into the universe, but also very, very alone.

Paula McLain

#77. broiling heat, and here I was standing out in the middle of it because he wouldn't leave me alone.

Patricia Cornwell

#78. Standing there, chisel and mallet in hand, gazing at the statue that was his vision in stone, was a moment when Richard could savor the supreme achievement of having his creation exist exactly as he had originally conceived it. For this singular moment in time, it was complete, and it was his alone.

Terry Goodkind

#79. I ached for him, my stomach twisting painfully. He looked so desolate standing there alone facing a mad queen and several thousand angry fey. His voice was flat and resigned, as if he'd been pushed into a corner and had given up, not caring what happened next.

Julie Kagawa

#80. Even when they have been felled, let alone when they are still standing and fighting, they never disgrace themselves,

Tom Holland

#81. It's better to stand alone and feel strong
than standing with people who make you feel weak

Steven Aitchison

#82. Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

Suzy Kassem

#83. And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must be a natural part of growing up. Standing out too much made one feel too alone to do it forever.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#84. If God be just, I, a sinner, alone and without a substitute, must be punished; but Jesus stands in my stead and is punished for me; and now, if God be just, I, a sinner, standing in Christ, can never be punished.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#85. It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.

Hans Frodi Hansen

#86. In the past year alone, I've robbed banks. I've robbed people. I've robbed people standing outside banks.

John David Anderson

#87. That's the thing about driving: You're alone but you're everywhere. You're standing still but moving really fast. It's just like perspectives constantly changing.

Galcher Lustwerk

#88. He withdrew then, leaving [him] standing in the bloody morning sunlight, leaving him all alone at the heart of his fortress, for the second time, with nothing but a corpse for company.

Scott Lynch

#89. Desolation would not be the proper word to describe his feelings now; it was more the sense of emptiness he imagined he might feel standing all alone on the surface of the moon.

Shusaku Endo

#90. A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

Thomas Carlyle

#91. I wanted to give the songs a run for their money, to see if they stood on their own without a lot of accoutrements. It made more sense - and it was easier, too - to go out alone and see if these songs could get in a couple of fistfights and still be standing.

Annie E. Clark

#92. You lied to me."
"I never lied. I just didn't tell you the whole truth."
"You said you were alone."
"I am alone."
"There's hundreds of you. Maybe thousands. You and your 'family' are everywhere."
"Just because you're standing in a crowd doesn't mean you belong there." -Yukiko and Kin

Jay Kristoff

#93. I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

Barney Ross

#94. But then anytime you join in a mass movement you're going to find yourself standing alongside idiots. One reason people go to mass rallies is to become stupider and surer of themselves than they are when they're alone.

Tim Kreider

#95. Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#96. To him, she was one of the few girls who was nice to him, the stodgy son of a poor alcoholic shoemaker with such little status that he seemed unlikely to even get one wife, let alone the three or more that designated a man of standing.

Colleen Chen

#97. You are not for the left or right team, but for what is right against the wrong.

Suzy Kassem

#98. You were standing in the wake of devastation
And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
And with the cataclysm raining down
Insides crying "Save me now"
You were there, impossibly alone

Linkin Park

#99. Do I dare disturb the universe?
Yes, I do, I do. I think.
Jerry suddenly understood the poster
the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.

Robert Cormier

#100. Future strong leadership means being willing to stand alone. Often, the times we feel most vulnerable are when we stand alone, before others join us. When we choose to be the first voice echoing above the silence. Standing strong, alone.

Bill Jensen