All Alone Quotes - Page 2

• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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• I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

  Joshua Slocum

  Book, Being Alone, Self

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.145, Applewood Books

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• if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

  Richard Yates

  Honesty, Being Alone, Done

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• I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

  Amy Sedaris

  Being Alone, Opportunity, Thinking

  Amy Sedaris (2008). “I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence”, p.302, Hachette UK

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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Halloween, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

  Arnold Rothstein

  Being Alone, Going Away, Want

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• Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

  James Dean

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends cos I'm too content being by myself.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dog, Lonely, Being Alone

  "Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.

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• Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

  Anne Hathaway

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Interview with Angelina Jolie, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2010.

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• I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

  Whitney Houston

  Friends, Being Alone, Mean

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• As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone,
  And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known,
  So I turn the leaves of Fancy, till in shadowy design
  I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Life, Design, Albums

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.28, Indiana University Press

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• Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, 'Go to sleep by yourselves.' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Sleep, Independent

  "Growing Old in America". Grace Hechinger, Family Circle Magazine, July 25, 1977.

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• One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn’t mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career.

  Jim Rohn

  Mean, Responsibility, Successful

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• Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves. We’re a crowd animal, a highly gregarious, communicative species, but the culture and the age and all the fear that fills our days have put almost everyone into little boxes, each of us all alone. But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.

  Anne Lamott

  Baseball, Animal, Giving

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• I mean, look at us. We're all alone in my bedroom and I'm not feeling any urge to make any kinda move on you. That's a pretty big problem.

  Aya Nakahara

  Moving, Mean, Feelings

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• There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.

  Lois Lowry

  Shapes, Rooms, Giver

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Unhappy, Theatre

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.622, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.

  Henry Miller

  Dirt, Villa, Chairs

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Thinking, Compassion, Needs

  "Tigana". Book by Guy Gavriel Kay, 1990.

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• Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Kids, Night

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• do u ever think, when ur all alone, all tht we could be, where this can go, am i crazy, or falling in love?

  David Archuleta

  Falling In Love, Crazy, Thinking

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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

  Country, Reading, Eight

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• There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

  Mike Mills

  Sadness, Self, Work Out

  "Director Mike Mills Exclusive Interview BEGINNERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2011.

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• Oh, God, help me! And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes squealing like mice, but running didn't help, the thoughts to the left and right and behind me. But as I ran, The Arm, that good left arm, took hold of the situation and spoke soothingly: ease up, Kid, it's loneliness, you're all alone in the world; your father, your mother, your faith, they can't help you, nobody helps anybody, you only help yourself, and that's why I'm here, because we are inseperable, and we'll take care of everything.

  John Fante

  Mother, Running, Loneliness

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• I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Hurt, Morning, Phones

  "Francis Ford Coppola Talks 'Twixt' & Competing with his Former Self". Interview with Adam Pockross, yahoo.com. July 24, 2013.

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