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Quotes About Alone

But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.
~ Wendell Berry
As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.
~ Charles Portis
Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.
~ Charles Simic
The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
~ Charles Stanley
Will? What are you doing?" "Being in love with you." "No, you're not. You're falling in love." "Same thing." "Not the same thing," she says. "Falling in love is a story." She says that telling a love story is something one person does. Being in love takes both of them. Putting her on a pedestal is just a different way of being alone.
~ Charles Yu
It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.
~ Charlotte Bront
Have you had stretches of time where dating or serious relationships were nonexistent?
~ Cheryl McKay
Many churches skip our demographic and offer us nothing. They go from the college and career group to the young marrieds. They forget that many these days are in their thirties and forties, yet alone. Mother's Day can also be a hot button for some women who desire children.
~ Cheryl McKay
Fear of being alone is not a good reason to stay. Leaving this man you've been with for six years won't be easy, but you'll be okay and so will he. The end of your relationship with him will likely also mark the end of an era of your life. In moving into this next era there are going to be things you lose and things you gain. Trust yourself. It's Sugar's golden rule. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.
~ Cheryl Strayed
A beloved daughter who now spent holidays alone.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Fear of being alone is not a good reason to stay
~ Cheryl Strayed
I was alone. I was barefoot. I was twenty-six years old and an orphan too. An actual stray, a stranger had observed a couple of weeks before, when I'd told him my name and explained how very loose I was in the world.
~ Cheryl Strayed
People want to help I woman alone. Or try to get in her pants.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I can't believe you came down here alone. Why, Deb?" "Why not?" "That's a reason?" "Sure, it's the best one.
~ Chet Williamson
I'm content with my role, Mr. Tung. I have no ambitions. All I ask is for honest work killing your kind, and to be left alone to handle my affairs.
~ Chet Williamson
Suddenly, in this lap of luxury, I felt lonely. I missed home, my hostel room and my mother, all at the same time. It is funny how class works. The moment you are placed in a higher one, a part of you feels terrified and alone.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on.
~ Billy Connolly
And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.
~ Lord Byron, "The Dream," 1816
The sea hath no King but God alone.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone...
~ Lord Byron
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House — with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined here alone.
~ John F. Kennedy, 1962
Quarantini — just a regular martini, but you drink it alone at home
~ Internet meme, March 2020
The feeling of abandonment overwhelmed me as I realised that no one had waited, or cared where I was.
~ Emily Williams
He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that might pursue him. As a child he had stood by the seashore at Ljósavík and watched the waves soughing in and out, but now he was heading away from the sea. "Think of me when you are in glorious sunshine." Soon the sun of the day of resurrection will shine on the bright paths where she awaits her poet. And beauty shall reign alone.
~ Halldor Laxness