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Quotes About Alone

I need you just to breathe, Shea , he admitted starkly. I am sorry that terrifies you. I wish that I had more control, but I cannot be alone like that, not ever again. I try to keep my presence in you but a shadow. Perhaps with time I can let go a bit. Being with me terrifies you, but being without you terrifies me. A note of amusement crept in. We are so compatible.
~ Christine Feehan
You always get one or two by themselves in London pubs. That's the difference between a pub and a bar, Banbury explained. Pubs are about conviviality and community, meeting mates. Bars are for being alone in, or for meeting a stranger.
~ Christopher Fowler
This bright place isn't really a sanctuary. For, ambushed among its bottles and cartons and cans, are shockingly vivid memories of meals shopped for, cooked, eaten with Jim. They stab out at George as he passes, pushing his shopping cart. Should we ever feel truly lonely if we never ate alone?
~ Christopher Isherwood
Farewell my dearest flower; Farewell my happiness as well, as for me, the unfortunate, I see I am destined by the highest To live alone in this world, in misery
~ Upton Sinclair
You know what the say about finding a man in Alaska - the odds are good, but the goods are odd." - The Great Alone
~ Kristin Hannah
There is no middle ground, no safe place; not here, in the Great Alone.
~ Kristin Hannah
It might be better if we didn't see each other for a while.
~ L.J. Smith
God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God.
~ laboulaye edouard rene de
There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself.
~ lacordaire henri dominique ii
He reached for her hand and caught it—lightly—and held it. It was small, smooth, and very real. Up in the citadel, Sarai gasped. She felt the warmth of his skin on hers. A blaze of connection—or collision , as though they had long been wandering in the same labyrinth and had finally rounded the corner that would bring them face-to-face. It was a feeling of being lost and alone and then suddenly neither.
~ Laini Taylor
the simplicity of it filled her with warmth. They had looked for her, and found her; she wasn't alone, after all.
~ Laini Taylor
Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.
~ lamartine alphonse de ii
Are there no solitudes out of the cave and the desert; or cannot the heart in the midst of crowds feel frightfully alone?
~ lamb charles iv
Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.
~ Cassandra Clare
Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library... alone." He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa.
~ Cassandra Clare
Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
~ Cassandra Clare
It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that... Magnus.
~ Cassandra Clare
Glory?....Glory belongs to God alone.
~ Cassandra Clare
Emma was a woman on a mission, and Logan was more than fine with that since the mission seemed to be getting alone - and naked - with him.
~ Cat Johnson
Other people always bring complications. That's just the nature of human relationships. You can't separate people from their complications. Uncomplicated and alone are more or less the same thing.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
People need help with perspective sometimes. If they're all alone in their own head, they can lose perspective.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Only the uncool have the requisite alone time to advance their species. And so it was that, eventually, between drawing meatship schematics in the dirt and dreaming of a world where she didn't hate literally everyone, the shiest and most sensitive of Yurtmaks began to plan the most ambitious massacre in the history of the galaxy: the murder of stupidity.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
~ Cathy Freeman
The path to enlightenment, to find out who you truly are, has to be taken alone.
~ Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla