949 private quotes tagged alone

“No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.” — Danielle Berry

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“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.” — Robert Frost

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“The strong man is strongest when alone.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.” — Charles Bukowski

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“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.” — Octavio Paz

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“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” — George Washington

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“The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.” — Doug Coupland

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“Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.” — Mason Cooley

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“I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.” — Charles Bukowski

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“The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.” — Richard Branson

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“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.” — Lord Byron

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“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.” — Ayn Rand

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“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.” — Tennessee Williams

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“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.” — George Carlin

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“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.” — Lord Byron

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“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.” — Albert Einstein

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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” — Helen Keller

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