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Quotes About Alone

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there's a bedrock of truth, however hard. It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant.
~ May Sarton
Now the days stretch before you with the dryness and sameness of desert dunes. And in this season of grief we who love you have become invisible to you. Our words worry the empty air around you and you can sense no meaning in our speech. Yet, we are here. We are still here. Our hearts ache to support you. We are always loving you. You are not alone.
~ Maya Angelou
Alone, seated in a strange house filled with strangers, I felt as if I were in dangerous waters, swimming badly and out of my depth. I was plankton in an ocean of whales.
~ Maya Angelou
Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.
~ Maya Angelou
In the evening, when we were alone like that, Uncle Willie didn't stutter or shake or give any indication that he had an affliction. It seemed that the peace of a day's ending was an assurance that the covenant God made with children, Negroes and the crippled was still in effect.
~ Maya Angelou
That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That'll teach me to go hide in a temple.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
If the desire to have children is just a way to build some noisy tribe of distraction around oneself, then I'd rather be alone.
~ Meghan Daum
There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children... it is that they might be alright alone.
~ Merrit Malloy
But his mind saw nothing of all this. His mind was engaged in a warfare of the gods. His mind paced outwards over no-man's-land, over the fields of the slain, paced to the rhythm of the blood's red bugles. To be alone and evil! To be a god at bay. What was more absolute?
~ Mervyn Peake
It was the same strange capering jig he'd performed Thursday night, and once again it was for the benefit of her and her alone.
~ Bentley Little
He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone.
~ Bernard Werber
By demanding that we seek his glory alone, God is calling us to overcome the natural temptation to seek our own.
~ Beth Moore
I have a lot of cousins, but no siblings.
~ Stacy Martin
I wouldn't say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don't think there's anyone on my side.
~ Kanye West
If the record was picked up by Dot Records, I would imagine that they would have wanted both sides of the record to be something by Lou alone which would account for the dropping of 'So Blue'.
~ Phil Harris
For love, we've got to be alone, together. We've got to close out everyone else.
~ Stuart Miller
Sociologist James House of the University of Michigan declares that emotional isolation is a more dangerous health risk than smoking or high blood pressure, and we now warn everyone about these two! Perhaps these findings reflect the time-honored saying "Suffering is a given; suffering alone is intolerable.
~ Sue Johnson
felt alone in the world with my alien ideas.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
No. I am retired from the post office for the last ten years. Most afternoons, it is my daily routine to arrive at three and leave at six." "Your routine seems very pleasant." Perveen imagined what her life might be like when she was alone and in her seventies.
~ Sujata Massey
The idea that North Korea alone excelled while all other nations were falling behind seemed a near obsession.
~ Suki Kim
Inherent in his fear of this dependency is the equally dreadful fear that she will leave him. His terrors of being alone, of being unable to cope, and of being overwhelmed by an insatiable neediness all grip him again. Chronologically he is an adult, but psychologically he is still a frightened child.
~ Susan Forward
Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I'm here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT.
~ Susan Sontag
I believe the entire natural world is but the ultimate expression of that spiritual world from which, and in which alone, it has its life.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
stores that specialized in furniture alone.
~ Josephine Cox