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Quotes About Alone

But so far as the pleasure was concerned, I was naturally not conscious of it until some time later, when, back at the hotel, and in my room alone, I had become myself again. Pleasure in this respect is like photography. What we take, in the presence of the beloved object, is merely a negative, which we develop later, when we are back at home, and have once again found at our disposal that inner dark-room the entrance to which is barred to us so long as we are with other people.
~ Marcel Proust
the good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom she does not love. Too often, the kind friend comes down again alone.
~ Marcel Proust
So little knows Any but God alone to value right The good before him but perverts best things To worst abuse or to their meanest use.
~ John Milton
I will say that it appears likely that Tubbs was working alone, out of a personal animus toward Smalls.
~ John Sandford
There was a reason why Special Forces soldiers hardly ever retired - being retired means losing integration. Losing integration means being alone.
~ John Scalzi
Her self was an island.
~ John Steinbeck
Didn't know anyone could see it," Samuel said. "You know, Lee, I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody. And my life has not been a full orchestra for a long time now. A single note only—and that note unchanging sorrow. I'm not alone in my attitude, Lee. It seems to me that too many of us conceive of a life as ending in defeat.
~ John Steinbeck
Skeeter stands and tries to comprehend this man. "Trouble with you, he sees, "you still cluttered up with common sense. Common sense is bullshit, man. It gets you through the days all right, but it leaves you alone at night. It keeps you from knowing.
~ John Updike
Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.
~ W. H. Auden
For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.
~ Richard Brautigan
I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
~ John Grisham
There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children... it is that they might be alright alone.
~ Merrit Malloy
But, when she was alone, someone rapped on the door and she found herself on her feet, knife in hand, before she had time to reason with her fear.
~ Unknown
It is better to live alone in DARKNESS than to be in LIGHT with people full of darkness INSIDE.
~ Unknown
I guess it's too late, I'm dancing this dance alone, this chapter's done the story goes on.
~ Unknown
In making decisions regarding your life consider only what your heart says as this life has been granted to you and you alone.
~ Unknown
Same hurt, same lies. No one knows what I truly feel inside. I just want to be done. I'm alone and in need of someone, anyone. The truth is it's everyone for themselves , my heart is completely tore. But not matter what I will continue to fight and continue on this journey called life.
~ Unknown
Stop feeling alone, start laughing. Stop dreaming, start believing. Stop fighting, start loving. Stop thinking, start acting.
~ Unknown
Sometimes we feel alone because we thought people gave us happiness. We forget that God is always there. People leave but God is always beside us. He is waiting to call you. That's why we need to pray.
~ Unknown
Stand for what's right, even if that means standing alone. Never compromise your standards and values!
~ Unknown
And while Bloch's eye gleamed as he thought of what the conversation of these marvellous people must have been, I was thinking that I had exaggerated my pleasure in their society, having never got any until I was alone and could differentiate them in my imagination. Did Bloch realise this?
~ Marcel Proust
Cottard will bore you, and that alone will prevent his treatment from having any effect.
~ Marcel Proust
Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear. I was alone, and never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they spread out from me and shackled all I touched.
~ Margaret Laurence
I am alone and my heart is my own. Loneliness. Solitude. The first is a curse, the second a blessing. I would rather be a hermit than live with a stranger who would make me feel even more lonely than when I am truly alone.
~ Unknown