949 private quotes tagged alone

“This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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“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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“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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“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.” — 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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“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.” — Lord Byron

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“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.” — Tennessee Williams

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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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“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.” — Martin Luther

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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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“Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.” — Sophocles

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“Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.” — William Butler Yeats

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“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.” — André Gide

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

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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” — Alexander Pope

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“Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

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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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“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.” — James Madison

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

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“Change alone is unchanging.” — Heraclitus

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