All Alone Quotes - Page 7

• Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down

  Tom Petty

  Dirty, Heart, Clouds

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• ... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Morning, Stuff, Vitamins

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.117, Random House

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• Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

  Agatha Christie

  Knives, Shining, Confusing

  Agatha Christie (2004). “Poirot in the Orient”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

  Frank Norris

  World, Wilderness, Caress

  Frank Norris (2012). “McTeague”, p.92, Penguin

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• Ew, sicko. I was practicing Edomic." "Sure you were," Jason said. "You're just too embarrassed to admit you were playing hide-and-seek all alone. Rachel hiding, nobody seeking.

  Brandon Mull

  Jason, Hiding, Said

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• Mem'ry
  All alone in the moonlight
  I can smile at the old days
  Life was beautiful then.

  Trevor Nunn

  Beautiful, Song, Memories

  "Song: 'Memory'". 1981.

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• Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Believe, Sleep

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• He is the straight to video sequel to your summer hit movie. He is the verse to that song on the radio you have to hum cause you can’t remember the words. You couldn’t break this kid’s heart, he is so far beyond that. This is the kind of kid who blew out the candles on hope all alone for too many birthdays to remember. And no one has ever fallen in love with anyone with a smile that’s dripping with “please die”.

  Pete Wentz

  Summer, Song, Heart

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• On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Being Alone, Creativity, Winning

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• I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Aomame

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• Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone. I’d never live it down.

  Michael Grant

  Boys, Self, Usual

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• Can I get a lock for my tent? Bears can't unzip tents, Lana. Well, chainsaw psychos who wander the woods looking for young girls all alone to chop up into pieces can. There are no chainsaw psychos! I can't believe you've never been camping. It's safe, Lana. I promise. Easy for you to say. You'll be snuggled up safely in the arms of Beau Vincent. I'm more than positive he could take on a black bear.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Believe, Black

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Woods, Lasts, Unicorn

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

  Agatha Christie

  Littles, Left, Indian

  "Masterpieces of murder".

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• The social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies.

  Thomas Hardy

  Stars, Real, Passion

  Jude the Obscure pt. 4, ch. 1 (1896)

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• Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take What You Need." Inside is the storehouse of all that God is. He invites us to share it all. He doesn't intend for us to stay on the outside and struggle all alone with the perplexities of life, and He not only invites us to come in, but to stay in. . . . It is an on-going process, not just an occasional religious-sounding speech we make to a nebulous divinity "out there somewhere." Prayer is meant to be a part of our lives, like breathing and thinking and talking.

  Gloria Gaither

  Religious, Prayer, Struggle

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• My wife and I lived all alone,
  contention was our only bone.
  I fought with her, she fought with me,
  and things went on right merrily.
  But now I live here by myself
  with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
  and pass my days with little cheer
  since I have parted from my dear.

  Robert Creeley

  Marriage, Cheer, Wife

  Robert Creeley, Benjamin Friedlander (2008). “Selected Poems, 1945-2005”, p.67, Univ of California Press

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• I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and press my forehead against the floor. There, I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks. First in English. Then in Italian. And then - just to get the point across - in Sanskrit.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Letting Go, Prayer, Italian

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I only bleed when I'm all alone

  Myles Kennedy

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• Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

  Mervyn Peake

  Lonely, Lingering

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.118, The Overlook Press

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• The writer is all alone.

  V. S. Naipaul

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• Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Home, Long Walks, Friendly

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• The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

  Beth Henley

  Christmas, Writing, School

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

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• When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when an athlete feels all alone in the big world. Opponents assume tremendous stature. Any runner who denies having fears, nerves or some kind of disposition is a bad athlete, or a liar.

  Gordon Pirie

  Running, Liars, Athlete

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• Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.

  Jack Kerouac

  Happiness, Running, Beach

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.7, Penguin

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