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Quotes About Alone

No, God won't have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that, I don't feel pain.
~ Emily Bronte
When I hoped I feared, Since I hoped I dared; Everywhere alone As a church remain; Spectre cannot harm, Serpent cannot charm; He deposes doom, Who hath suffered him.
~ Emily Dickinson
A letter always feels to me like Immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
~ Emily Dickinson
Alone, I cannot be - For Hosts - do visit me - Recordless Company - Who baffle Key - They have no Robes, nor Names - No Almanacs - nor Climes - But general Homes Like Gnomes - Their Coming, may be known By Couriers within - Their going - is not - For they've never gone -
~ Emily Dickinson
I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.
~ Emily Giffin
I'm not really shy. I'm an introvert." I went on to explain the difference—the fact that being around people didn't make me uneasy, I just preferred to be alone most of the time.
~ Emily Giffin
Fog makes an island of every man.
~ Emma Donoghue
Kreb blättert in seinem Kalender und antwortet, nein, zu schade, zu seinem großen Bedauern könne er bei dem Fest nicht dabei sein, habe er doch vor, ausgerechnet an diesem Abend allein zu Hause zu bleiben und sich anzuöden.
~ Éric Chevillard
We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.
~ Eric Hoffer
Today, more than 50 percent of American adults are single, and 31 million—roughly one out of every seven adults—live alone.
~ Eric Klinenberg
There are many paths to many answers. Some paths must be walked alone but other journeys cannot begin unless one has a companion of the heart.
~ Amanda Quick
Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.
~ Amelia Earhart
It is madness to think that knowing a language and reading a few books can create allegiances between people. Thoughts, books, ideas, words – if anything, they make you more alone, because they destroy whatever instinctive loyalties you may once have possessed.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Moons decay. Stars explode. That leaves me where I am. All alone in an empty room.
~ Amy Lane
opened my heart, it filled with love, with sex, with power, with new. With every door I pulverized, I knew I'd be missing you. All alone in an empty room.
~ Amy Lane
I am concerned, I say, with facts which may belong to the order of pure observation, but which on each occasion present all the appearances of a signal, without our being able to say precisely which signal, and of what; facts which when I am alone permit me to enjoy unlikely complicities, which convince me of my error in occasionally presuming I stand at the helm alone.
~ Andre Breton
Nevada sighed. "Am I alone in finding the whole notion of the dark web dispiriting? I don't suppose it's full of cat videos?" "Only very dark cat videos," said Tinkler.
~ Andrew Cartmel
We want not only to be loved, but to be loved alone.
~ Andrew Holleran
In London everyone lives in small spaces so I found living in flatshares easy. I've never been bothered about privacy. If I'm home alone I feel a bit weird, I want people to come round.
~ A. J. Odudu
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, which doesn't feel like L.A. It's a bit different. It's still L.A. County, but it's not the same, it's not the kind of place where they embrace you for being a weirdo. You were just left alone with your Nintendo, and that was my life.
~ Flying Lotus
But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I could impregnate women in a different way to everyone else. Elizabeth and I were never alone in a room together, so I must be a very powerful man indeed. Actually, I'm thinking of suing the baby!
~ Matthew Perry
Sharing our experience with pregnancy was incredibly important because we realized how challenging and difficult that was, and there are really dark moments where you think you're alone.
~ Priscilla Chan
I'm really not comfortable doing interviews in a group, in press conferences. One-on-one, I'm all right, but those press conferences at the All-Star Game, I just don't... I feel better when I'm by myself.
~ Ken Griffey Jr.