Alone Quotes

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

Nancy Grace

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

David Walliams

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

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

Tom Sizemore

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Henrik Ibsen

I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

Leslie Nielsen

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

Dennis Brown

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

A. N. Wilson

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Doug Coupland

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Robert Plant

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

John Updike

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Terry Pratchett

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Martin Luther

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

Johnny Carson

Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.

Virginia Woolf

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

Conrad Hall

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Jean de la Bruyere

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

Chris Ware

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

John Abizaid

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert H. Humphrey