949 private quotes tagged alone

“And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.” — John Irving

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“I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.” — Claire Danes

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“Love alone could waken love.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.” — Herodotus

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“Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.” — Ramakrishna

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“On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.” — Janis Joplin

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“Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.” — Emily Carr

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“You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.” — Peter Abrahams

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“Alone I'm nothing.” — Robert Plant

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“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.” — Charles de Gaulle

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“We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?” — Anna Letitia Barbauld

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“The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone.” — James Baldwin

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“We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.” — Thornton Wilder

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“Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.” — Marilyn vos Savant

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“It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it.” — Cindy Crawford

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“I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?” — Audre Lorde

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“As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.” — Madeleine Albright

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“I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.” — Jeanne Moreau

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“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.” — Wayne Dyer

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“A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.” — George Canning

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“I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

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“And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.” — Olivier Martinez

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“Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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