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Quotes About Independence

Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.
~ Thomas Browne
I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.
~ Karin Slaughter
I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.
~ Claudia Christian
As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.
~ Sienna Miller
Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
~ Pablo Picasso
When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I want to be left alone.
~ Greta Garbo
If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Leave me alone. I'm fine.
~ Barry White
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
~ John Dryden
I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
Being alone makes us stronger. That's the honest truth. But it's cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
~ Roberto Bolano
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
~ Baruch Spinoza
To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.
~ Frank Herbert
Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
~ Mason Cooley
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
~ Molly Haskell
Leave my image alone... I will behave as I think I should and I will not change anything.
~ Ezer Weizman
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
~ Julie Burchill