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Quotes About Alone

People don't do me much good.
~ Charles Bukowski
there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.
~ Charles Bukowski
beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average
~ Charles Bukowski
The Bible says, 'Love thy neighbor.' That could mean to leave him alone.
~ Charles Bukowski
you are alone, Chinaski, and below the stage the seats are empty. the theatre is dark. why do you keep acting? what a bad habit.
~ Charles Bukowski
the people come into the bar night after night for the same old show which he will one day end alone blowing his brains to the walls. the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.
~ Charles Bukowski
you're not mine and it makes me feel so bad, this thing of being me…
~ Charles Bukowski
You want to find your self in the flow of time, miraculously relieved of your irrelevance . . . I saw the pursuit of historical beauty, the yearning for those higher essences other people had staked their lives on, as the hope for some kind of voice, a chance to join the chorus. I was mad for relevance, connection, some hint that I was not alone. I started scribbling in notebooks in part just so I'd have an excuse, a reason for sitting where I sat, an alibi for being by myself.
~ Charles D'Ambrosio
Alone, you're vastly outnumbered; but in the company of another, by some weird miracle of human math, the odds seem wonderfully improved in your favor.
~ Charles D'Ambrosio
If she had not been alone, she would never have seen the panther or felt the hope it spread into the world like rings around the splash of a rock thrown into a still lake.
~ Charles Frazier
She was a woman and she had spent enough time alone on subway platforms or streets late at night to know something was wrong.
~ Chris Bohjalian
I can be in a beautiful, loving and caring relationship, but it can't be 24x7 and 30 days a month. At the end of the day, I need my time alone.
~ Akshaye Khanna
I always run without music. Being disconnected is what I'm addicted to more than anything. There aren't many places where you can be without your phone and computer. I've started to crave and enjoy that time alone.
~ Christy Turlington
The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.
~ Sheri L. Dew
I try to motivate people and inspire them, to let them know that they're not alone.
~ Jason David Frank
Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?
~ Thomas Wolfe
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
~ Thomas Wolfe
naked and alone we came into exile
~ Thomas Wolfe
Real prayer is a disappearance, a surrender to the embrace of deepening mystery, in darkness. In that darkness, finally, God alone is. And God is infinite surprise.
~ Tim Farrington
I don't think I've ever felt more disoriented and alone. Or more thoroughly, serenely, at home. Every true romantic will know what I mean.
~ Tom Robbins
My puzzlement used to be 'why is the Lone Ranger' called 'lone' if he is always with Tonto. Now, I see that given the racial and metaphorical nature of the relationship, he is able to be understood as 'alone' precisely because of Tonto. Without him, he would be, I suppose, simply 'Ranger'.
~ Toni Morrison
It's lonely up in the top
~ Kermit the Frog
I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.
~ Kesha
I explained already about suffering and about each one of you, destined to be isolate and alone because writing is lonely work
~ Kim Addonizio