949 private quotes tagged alone

“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.” — Janis Joplin

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“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.” — Paul Tournier

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“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.” — Martin Heidegger

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“Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.” — Evelyn Waugh

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“I want to be alone.” — Greta Garbo

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“I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.” — Ingrid Bergman

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“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.” — Oliver Goldsmith

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“Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.” — Arnold Rothstein

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“I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.” — Alfred Eisenstaedt

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“We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.” — Anton Chekhov

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“Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.” — Martha Beck

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“Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.” — James Dean

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“Remember we're all in this alone.” — Lily Tomlin

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“A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.” — Eileen Caddy

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“The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.” — Vivienne Westwood

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“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.” — Whitney Houston

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“A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.” — Boethius

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“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.” — Epictetus

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“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” — Maxwell Maltz

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“I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.” — Whitney Houston

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“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.” — Baruch Spinoza

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