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Quotes including the word “alone”.

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Maya Angelou

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Beethoven

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Boccaccio

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Pearl Buck

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Charles Bukowski

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

George Byron

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Arthur Clarke

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

Joseph Conrad

We live as we dream--alone...

Erich Fromm

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love

Goethe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Nadine Gordimer

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self.

Gracian

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Hermann Hesse

“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Nazim Hikmet

To live! like a tree alone and free, To live! like a forest in brotherhood/sisterhood...

Na Hye-sok

Human beings don't exist for food and clothes alone, you know. We become human beings only when we get educated and informed

Ibsen

The strongest men are the most alone.

Isokratis

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Janis Joplin

Every night I make love to 25,000 people on stage, but then I go home alone.

Frida Kahlo

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Lautreamont

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Levi-Strauss

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Luther

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Luther

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Andre Malraux

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

Edouard Manet

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

Montessori

When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, ’I want to do it!’ But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children’s needs, they say, ‘Help me to do it alone.

Pascal

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Pascal

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

Octavio Paz

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Octavio Paz

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone

Quasimodo

Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world, pierced by a ray of sunlight, and suddenly it’s evening”

Gabrielle Roy

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

Sartre

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Kim Sowol

Life is not to live alone.

Spinoza

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Stendhal

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Clementina Suarez

I sing, bird alone. Only me, I sing alone. Oh how old is my song!

Tennyson

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Leo Tolstoy

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Leon Trotsky

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Paul Valery

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Verdi

I love art.. when I'm alone with my notes, my heart beats fast and tears run from my eyes.

Voltaire

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Washington

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Tennessee Williams

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.