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Quotes About Alone

'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.
~ Bill Hader
I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.
~ Karin Slaughter
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
~ Freya Stark
It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.
~ George Santayana
When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust them; leave them alone.
~ Laozi
All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.
~ William Henry Harrison
He wants your search to be complete and thorough, because you are discerning and will not settle for second best. If you are in a hurry, he'll think: "She's insecure and needs to fill a void. She cannot be alone." "I'm just filling a position. She needs me to write checks for her dreams.
~ Sherry Argov
Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.
~ Sherry Turkle
Paul Tillich has a beautiful formulation: "Language . . . has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
~ Sherry Turkle
if you never teach your children how to be alone then they will only know how to be lonely for the rest of their lives.
~ Sherry Turkle
The feeling of love remains until we forget about the other. Did you know that? Because we can fall in love alone too.
~ Shiho Inada
If I breathed the word That disappeared all people in the world, leaving the world to the world, would you say it? Would you sing it out loud?
~ Simon Armitage
Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
~ Simon Van Booy
Companion none is likeUnto the mind alone;For many have been harmed by speech,Through thinking, few or none.
~ Sir Thomas Vaux
This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder
~ Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
All love is lost but upon God alone.
~ William Dunbar
Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
~ William Butler Yeats
I feel so alone sometimes. The night is quiet for me. I'd love to be able to sleep. I'll probably not rest. I have no need for all this. Help me, Lord.
~ Elvis Presley
Love is repaid by love alone!
~ Unknown
I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.
~ Bob Seger
I don't remember feeling love.
~ Quincy Jones
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
~ Thomas Merton
That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.
~ Robert Penn Warren