949 private quotes tagged alone

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

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

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

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“Testing oneself is best when done alone.” — Jimmy Carter

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

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

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

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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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“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.” — Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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“Health consists with temperance alone.” — Alexander Pope

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“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Change alone is unchanging.” — Heraclitus

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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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“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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“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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“Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.” — Franz Liszt

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