Left Alone Quotes - Page 2

• And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Thinking, Life Is, Happens

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• Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

  Jean Rhys

  Beautiful, Successful, Wish

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• I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.

  Woody Allen

  Regret, Writing, School

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.

  Joanne Harris

  Mean, People, Psychological

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• Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and rejected....but we can never be OUT OF LOVE. We are love and if our minds separate ourselves from who we really are it is a painful delusion. Ego personalities, including our own, might separate ourselves from love but love never dies because it is what we are made of.

  Susan Mitchell

  Yoga, Greatest Fear, Personality

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• He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.

  Peter L. Berger

  Gone Away, Long, Interesting

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• I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.

  Summer Glau

  Teamwork, Independent, Knowing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2008.

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• Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Accepted, Should

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• Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

  Robert Genn

  Creativity, Being Alone, Artist

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• If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

  Henry Ford

  Government, People, Work Out

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• She had said she didn't feel fear, but it was a lie; this was her fear: being left alone. Because of one thing she was certain, and it was that she could never love, not like that. Trust a stranger with her flesh? The closeness, the quiet. She couldn't imagine it. Breathing someone else's breath as they breathed yours, touching someone, opening for them? The vulnerability of it made her flush. It would mean submission, letting down her guard, and she wouldn't. Ever. Just the thought made her feel small and weak as a child.

  Laini Taylor

  Children, Lying, Mean

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• It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

  Jello Biafra

  Mean, Hands, Should Have

  "Nardwuar Vs. Jello Biafra: New Introduction by Kristen K.: Originally ran in Razorcake #08, 2002 By Nardwuar". Interview with Nardwuar, razorcake.org. 2002.

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• The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Solitude, Mind, Bears

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

  Ashley Judd

  Responsibility, Shepherds, Talent

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• You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Beautiful, Kids, Remember

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• Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

  Stanley Hoffmann

  Solitude, Want, Erikson

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• To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Weekend, Thinking, Daddy

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• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  Randy Quaid

  Creative Space, Wanted, Space

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• I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Desire, Done, Half

  "Autobiographical interview". Cahiers du Cinema Magazine, 1960.

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• Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.

  Andy Rooney

  Believe, Government, People

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• Everywhere we look, the world urges us to turn on the radio or TV, to make a phone call, to see a movie. Many of us fear, worry, that if left alone with our thoughts and feelings, we may discover that we do not make very good company for ourselves.

  James O. Freedman

  Fear, Phones, Worry

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• Long ago, when Harry had been left alone while the Dursley's went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been a rare treat: Pausing only to sneak something tasty from the fridge, he had rushed upstairs to play on Dudley's computer, or put on the television and flicked through the channels to his heart's content. It gave him an odd empty feeling to remember those times; it was like remembering a younger brother whom he had lost.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Life Lesson, Heart

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• Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to it, and helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces, — self-denial, readiness to the cross, — they all work and help faith. But when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do.

  John Owen

  Leadership, Spiritual, Self

  "The Works of John Owen".

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• Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

  David Levithan

  Anger, Feelings, Left

  David Levithan (2012). “Six Earlier Days”, p.13, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Shy, Want, Be Kind

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