949 private quotes tagged alone

“It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.” — Jodie Foster

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“Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.” — Karl Barth

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“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.” — Paul Valery

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“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” — George Edward Moore

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“We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.” — Simone Weil

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“Victims always feel alone and helpless.” — Deepak Chopra

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“Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.” — Joe Biden

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“A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.” — Joseph Smith, Jr.

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“I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.” — Jeanette Winterson

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“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.” — Benito Mussolini

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“I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.” — Maria Mitchell

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“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” — Jesus Christ

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“Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.” — Pericles

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“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” — Joseph Conrad

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“Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.” — Scott Hamilton

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“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.” — Ferdinand Marcos

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“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.” — Sivananda

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“Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.” — Charles Wesley

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“The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.” — William Gurnall

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“Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.” — William Blackstone

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“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.” — Marcel Proust

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“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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