Always Alone Quotes

• We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

  Yul Brynner

  Love, Life, Death

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• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Life, Depressing

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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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• An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Lonely, Loneliness

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed. -Hephaestus

  Rick Riordan

  Mistake, People, Misunderstood

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• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  Wayne Dyer

  Confidence, Lonely, Clever

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

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

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• It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

  Jodie Foster

  War, Being Alone, Interesting

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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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• A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

  Nora Ephron

  Book, Men

  Nora Ephron (1978). “Scribble Scribble Notes on the Media”

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• I don’t mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you’re always alone, you get lonely.

  Colleen Houck

  Lonely, Mind, Problem

  Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Curse: Tiger Saga”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.

  Dorothy Allison

  Believe, Healing, Literature

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• I saw myself dancing alone, always alone.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Dancing, Saws

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Matter, No Matter What

  Marilyn Monroe (2010). “Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hell, Figures, Projection

  The Cocktail Party act 1, sc. 3 (1950)

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• I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Lonely, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moments, Significant, Significant Moments

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• I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

  Beverly Pepper

  Being Alone, Creativity, Artist

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• The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

  Patrick Ness

  Forever

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Summer, Fruit, Brideshead Revisited

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• The leader is always alone before bad fates.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Fate, Leader

  "Mémoires de Guerre". Book by Charles de Gaulle, 1954.

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• When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

  May Sarton

  Important, Important Things

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.78, Open Road Media

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• When you are feeling down, look at the skies. You are not always alone.

  EunB

  Sky, Feeling Down, Feelings

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• Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

  Ray Bradbury

  Oneness, Matter, Helping

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• The intellectual is always showing off,
  the lover is always getting lost.
  The intellectual runs away.
  afraid of drowning;
  the whole business of love
  is to drown in the sea.
  Intellectuals plan their repose;
  lovers are ashamed to rest.
  The lover is always alone.
  even surrounded by people;
  like water and oil, he remains apart.
  The man who goes to the trouble
  of giving advice to a lover
  get nothing. He's mocked by passion.
  Love is like musk. It attracts attention.
  Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.

  Rumi

  Love, Running, Passion

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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