949 private quotes tagged alone

“Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.” — Henry Rollins

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“The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.” — Brendan Behan

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“As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.” — Jason Schwartzman

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“There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.” — Edwin Markham

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“When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.” — Conor Oberst

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“I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.” — David Walliams

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“One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” — W. E. B. Du Bois

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“Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?” — Igor Stravinsky

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“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.” — Eliot Engel

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“'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pike

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“Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.” — William Osler

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“I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody I don't have to be a first to anybody.” — Lena Horne

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“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.” — Cyrano de Bergerac

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“The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” — Justin Timberlake

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“By being friends with all, we are not alone.” — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

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“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.” — Orson Welles

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“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“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

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“Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.” — Mick Jagger

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“If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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“But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.” — Karl Liebknecht

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“I'm happily single.” — Paula Abdul

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“Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.” — Jimmy Durante

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