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Quotes About Alone

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right .
~ John Grisham
But if Adam and Eve (when they were alone in the world) instead of their ordinary night's sleep, had passed the whole twenty-four hours in one continued sleep, the duration of that twenty-four hours had been irrecoverably lost to them, and been for ever left out of their account of time.
~ John Locke
and there were people wandering the town who had no people to meet, who did not want to be alone and were not noticed.
~ John McGahern
All Ursula can come up with is that when people were alone in the voting booth, they couldn't bring themselves to vote for a woman. The problem wasn't Ursula. It was American society. Of course Ursula harbored plenty of private fears
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Prof stood apart from his family.
~ Eliot Schrefer
To be on a pedestal is to be in a corner.
~ Elizabeth (Asquith) Bibesco
The heart doth recognise thee, Alone, alone! The heart doth smell thee sweet, Doth view thee fair, doth judge thee most complete,—- Though seeing now those changes that disguise thee.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
They were alone in the corridor, though the wail of the siren and the thump of emergency lights on her retinas made her shudder with adrenaline.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Candle-flicker. Come into the darkness and be no more alone." His smile grew tender. "Thou art an avenger, sister. Thy Light has abandoned thee. Avenge thyself.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It was perfectly silent, and perfectly safe, and perfectly warm. And perfectly alone.
~ Elizabeth Bear
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world. No one can share her fears, no one can mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is greater than she can bear, alone she passes beyond the gates into the vast unknown.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Perhaps faith is hard to come by when your're alone, Harriet," he said. "Until now I've been alone." "We're never alone," said Harriet. "That's the mistake so many make. There'd be less fear if folk knew how little alone they are.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
I guess I should have said that you're a tragic loss because your brains were yours and yours alone. You were the one who could pull the sword out of the stone. And you gave it all up.
~ Elizabeth Knox
Lucifer maintains that, like earth, Hell was there already, inhospitable and ugly, but a whole real world. He says he first went to Hell about the same time God started to store souls there—and that he took to going there to be alone with his thoughts.
~ Elizabeth Knox
Better to be like the falcon. Alone. Dependent on nothing but the air beneath her wings. At least for the falcon, the air had more substance than her foolish dreams of love.
~ Elizabeth Rolls
The Beast smiled slowly at first, it spread across his face until it took over. And it wasn't the scary smile he had first flashed at Belle. It was a warm smile it was a genuine smile. It was the smile of a beast who no longer felt alone. It was the smile of a man who finally felt hope.
~ Elizabeth Rudnick
It was Wilson and Wilson alone who was the source of the problems that haunted the Peace Conference and, afterward, the Treaty of Versailles.
~ Arthur Herman
Those Ten Words, and they alone, were written by the finger of God upon tables of stone, and they alone were deposited in the holy ark for safe keeping.
~ Arthur W. Pink
your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren't alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.
~ Augusten Burroughs
The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
~ Author Unknown
Why should i care? Cause you werent there when i was scared. I was so alone.
~ Avril Lavigne
Happiness we can only find in ourselves, it is a waste of time to seek for it from others, few have any to spare. Sorrow we have to bear alone as best we can, it is not fair to try to shift it on others, be they men or women. We have to fight our own battles and strike as hard as we can, born fighters as we are.
~ Axel Munthe