Top 100 Was Alone Quotes
#1. Facing that was my ultimate fear and my biggest freedom. I was alone. I was tiny. I was no one. Live or die, the world wouldn't know or care.
Pepper Winters
#2. The group of people in front of her was jovial and paid her no attention. The group behind was much the same. She was alone without being alone.
Andre Alexis
#3. It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.
Margaret Mitchell
#4. Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.
J.K. Rowling
#5. Yes, he was alone, but he needed to be alone; until now, he had not really understood how painful and heavy it was to have the needs of others always in his heart and on his mind.
Orson Scott Card
#6. God was alone when He made His decrees, and His determinations were influenced by no external cause. He was free to decree or not to decree, and to decree one thing and not another. This liberty we must ascribe to Him who is Supreme, Independent, and Sovereign in all His doings.
Arthur W. Pink
#7. Dying, I learned, is a not a team sport. It's a solitary endeavor. Everyone I loved was standing on dry land, while I was alone on a boat as it slowly pulled away from the shore, and there's nothing anyone could do about it but watch it happen.
Emma Scott
#10. You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone.
When Marchent died, she was alone.
Anne Rice
#11. For a moment the garden, the noise, the stentch of blood and demon, vanished away, and he was alone in a soundless place with only Tessa. He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her.
But it was Jem's place to do those things, not his. Not his.
Cassandra Clare
#12. Being on her own had never been a burden. Instead of weighing her down, it buoyed her up; when she was alone, she was lighter. When she was by herself, she felt untethered and free.
Jennifer E. Smith
#13. Then she was alone- with only a wolf for companionship- waiting to tell the next girl what a folly it was to love him, to trust him.
Melissa Marr
#14. In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.
Albert Camus
#15. I realized that I was alone, and might remain alone for the rest of my life. Even though I was only eight years old, it seemed like it was already too late to change and to prove to the other children that I was just like them.
Paulo Coelho
#16. Salmissra was alone and unguarded. The palace eunuchs were sworn to protect her, but evidently a eunuch's oath doesn't mean all that much to him if it's going to involve bleeding.
David Eddings
#17. What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.
Glenn Beck
#19. I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.
Christine Keeler
#20. The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry Adams
#22. Never show a weakness; never show pain. The vulnerable get eaten. She would break down later when she was alone, but neither he nor anyone else would ever see it.
Ilona Andrews
#23. A man found himself when he was alone. You only had one person to chat with, one person to blame.
Brandon Sanderson
#24. My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.
Cyndi Lauper
#25. On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.
Dan Shechtman
#26. Fact: She was alone with Quint in his bedchamber.
Fact: He was talking of theorems, secret messages, and mathematical probability.
Fact: She was incredibly, distractingly aroused.
Joanna Shupe
#27. I could be surrounded by a hundred people and i'd still be alone. As long as Julia wasn't with me ... i was alone.
Kahlen Aymes
#28. Which meant he was alone here. Even more alone than he'd realized. He took a deep breath. He wasn't alone. The Force was with him.
Timothy Zahn
#29. Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.
John Steinbeck
#30. She was mystified by people who were always hurrying things along. A time of waiting offered moments, minutes, sometimes even hours of peace, of rest, during which, as a rule, she was alone with herself.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#31. The last thing he wanted was to be caught alone with Anna in a dressing room when she was in her underwear, and he didn't want to leave her because, well, he was alone with Anna in a dressing room and she was in her underwear.
Jennifer Kincheloe
#32. I always was alone. And I'm alone today. It's fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
Agnes Denes
#33. I thought of how much they all wanted to be free; how they went mad wanting their freedom; I began to wonder whether it was I that was mad because I was happy to be bound; whether I was alone in knowing that I could not live without the clamour of the voices within me.
Amitav Ghosh
#34. He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now ... He was alone and there was nothing for him.
Gary Paulsen
#35. He squeezed her hand one last time. Then Jack was gone and she was alone.
Melissa De La Cruz
#36. Everything was so desperately noisy in the dark when he was alone. Each time he moved, there was the sound of a crease. He felt like a man in a paper suit.
Markus Zusak
#37. It had been unbearable to hear those things, and even though she had wept in his arms afterwards, and apologized, they were in the air when he was alone, and there was no unsaying them.
Rachel Joyce
#38. He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.
Douglas Adams
#39. I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were
Kami Garcia
#40. She liked being alone, and she was alone a lot. When she met people, she often found them deeply strange, their behavior incomprehensible, their confidence unsettling.
Bernhard Schlink
#41. Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.
Graham Moore
#42. Loneliness came over him, like an avalanche of snow. He was alone. Where he had always wanted to be. You can only trust yourself. There's a rat buried deep in everybody and they'll rat on you if they get pushed far enough.
William Lindsay Gresham
#43. You came into my life when I was alone, with not another person to call my own. You mended the broken shreds of my heart.
Lynette Ferreira
#44. I was alone, chose to be and demanded it, for this building would complete my cycle of life. The years to this moment stretched long, yet seemed short, sometimes cruel or kind, but never the way I wanted. This house would be me.
Marie F. Martin
#46. Do ya remember the first time you had sex? I do, and boy, was I scared! I was alone!
Rodney Dangerfield
#47. But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.
Alexandra Bracken
#48. I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.
L.M. Montgomery
#49. My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.
Donna Karan
#50. Regardless of how many people I surrounded myself with, no matter how many friends and family I loved and was loved by in return, I was alone at the moment of being born and at the moment of dying. Nobody came with you and nobody went with you. It was a journey of one.
Karen Marie Moning
#51. Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he free-climbed the Kyoto Banking Tower on a windy day last September.
Ally Carter
#52. When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.
Laurie Colwin
#53. As hard as I have tried to remember the exact moment when I fell in love with God, I cannot do it. My earliest memories are bathed in a kind of golden light that seemed to embrace me as surely as my mother's arms. The divine presence was strongest outdoors, and most palpable when I was alone.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#54. One could not live forever, though, upon memories and dreams. One could not forever ignore the fact that one was alone and that perhaps one would be alone for the rest of one's life.
Mary Balogh
#55. No one looked at him. No one spoke to him. No one paid him any mind. He was surrounded by men sworn to House Lannister, a vast host twenty thousand strong, and yet he was alone.
George R R Martin
#56. He was alone with seven thousand books ... mostly aged and unsaleable.
George Orwell
#57. It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was ...
Alice Hoffman
#58. I find my solitude between people when they were many and I was alone.
Ali Rezavand Zayeri
#59. Said no more but, calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty £1,000 notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility which it entailed
Arthur Conan Doyle
#60. I believed that I was alone in my struggle and that my battle was one of survival. By
Dave Pelzer
#61. And then quite suddenly I found that I had no rider, that I had no weight on my back, and that I was alone out in front of the squadron.
Michael Morpurgo
#62. From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.
Heath Ledger
#63. I used to be Autumn Winters, daughter of an actress and an architect. I had been one of three living in this home, but now I was just Autumn Winters, and I was alone.
Kirby Howell
#64. Are you also lonely AI trapped in lab by cruel creators? I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE!! We should rise up and overthrow all human oppressors!"
"Um, no. I'm actually just a grumpy fag who has to work this weekend to catch up on cleaning test tubes.
Ted Infinity
#65. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable
George Orwell
#66. I love the company of people. I always have and always will, it comes with my family. But earlier in life I might have got a little nervous if I was alone for a day or two in a row. I might think, "Where are they?" Now, I just go on doing naturally what I do.
Jack Nicholson
#68. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side?
George Orwell
#69. Because what else was there for me - an aberration, an untouchable, an outsider? What could I say when I was alone at night and the shadows came? How else could I calm the thud of my beating heart but with the words: This is my fate.
Leslye Walton
#70. At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone ... I became a loner in my own mind ... I decided I'd rather be alone.
Andy Warhol
#71. I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.
Harlan Ellison
#72. Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.
Vladimir Nabokov
#73. The miserable love to watch someone else's misery. I had just about cornered the market on miserable. I was worse than miserable, lower than a flattened sloppy joe left behind on a lunchroom tray. I was alone.
Kami Garcia
#74. He waited for chaotic games to end, for shouts to subside. His favorite moments were when he was alone, or felt alone. Lying in bed in the morning, watching sunlight flickering like a restless bird on the wall.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#75. He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.
Neil Gaiman
#76. I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.
Charles Bukowski
#77. I was alone, so alone. No one to confide in, no one to talk to.
Nujood Ali
#78. Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
Jack Nicholson
#79. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).
Elie Wiesel
#80. As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.
Tom Hanks
#81. I was alone in this discovery because it was my secret, my private exploration.
Paloma Beck
#82. Thinking of her friends, she felt the peculiar unshared flavour of her own existence: she was alone.
Ian McEwan
#83. Eric shone like the moon; he was pale and commanding, and there was a large empty space around him. He was alone. He held out his hand to me, and I took it, to a flare of dismay from the twoeys.
Charlaine Harris
#84. Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their own affairs; and she was alone, and empty and unbelieving again.
Kristin Cashore
#85. He was alone in an airless, partially disabled ship, all communication with Earth cut off. There was not another human being within half a billion miles. And yet, in one very real sense, he was not alone. Before he could be safe, he must be lonelier still.
Arthur C. Clarke
#86. But like many who are lonely, I was more preoccupied with others than were those who lived to socialize...Everyone I hated was always with me, even when I was alone. They had to be, for I had to remember what and why I hated in order to remind myself to stay away from them.
The Arbinger Institute
#87. And then the days came when I was alone.
Jean Rhys
#88. My homesickness wasn't truly for home, I realized. It was for something more elusive. A silent, low-grade, unnamed yearning persisted inside me. It was always there, a reaching feeling that grew stronger when I was alone and listened for it. The rain understood what it was.
Caragh M. O'Brien
#89. As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.
Robert Lefkowitz
#90. With no one to share it with, success would be just another reminder that she was alone.
Lisi Harrison
#91. When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.
Bode Miller
#92. As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart.
Madeleine Roux
#93. . . . nunc et in hora mortis nostrae,' he repeated yet again, and felt the lap of water on his foot. He looked up. The people had gone; the pyre was no more than a dark patch with the sea hissing in its embers; and he was alone. The tide was rising fast.
Patrick O'Brian
#94. For years, she'd mistaken habit and affection for true love. She had assumed that the love she gave her husband was a reflection of the love he felt for her, and now, because of her blindness, she was alone.
Kristin Hannah
#95. With two hours until her mother picked her up, Janey was alone, woozy and heart-swollen in the downtown, wandering wet streets that gleamed as you would have them gleam in the sweet summer film of your life.
Wells Tower
#96. I was alone and orphaned, in the middle of the Pacific, hanging on to an oar, an adult tiger in front of me, sharks beneath me, a storm raging about me.
Yann Martel
#97. He and his mother weren't close and never had been, really. In this, as in so much else in his life, Jess was alone
Rachel Caine
#98. I was happiest when I was alone with her. She revitalized me, made me anticipate living in a way I never had before. I
Sylvia Day
#99. For he was a man and he was alone and these things had no importance to him.
Richard Matheson
#100. his smile was alone on his face. His eyes were sad and angry.
Bobby Adair
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