Quotes of: Being-alone Keyword

People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw because I'm not trying to sell myself to anybody.

Teenage Idol

...So little knows Any but God alone to value right The good before him but perverts best things To worst abuse or to their meanest use.

Paradise Lost

Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.

Quality of Witness: A Romanian Diary, 1937-1944

That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That’ll teach me to go hide in a temple.

The Queen of Attolia

No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of us is alone.

The Quiet Girl

Work hard or don’t work hard, either way your hair will turn gray. I should let you be alone while you die, slowly.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I know a lot about forming personal connections with people. Not from, you know, personal interaction or anything, but from reading about it alone, in silence.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I drink coffee like I urinate—alone, or in large groups. Sometimes I wish I knew the secret handshake.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If you're strange enough, people won't notice you're kind and will leave you alone.

Ten Things I Hate about You

I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.

Unlocked

The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.

The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

Papa was right, after all. A ship's crew was like a family, and together we had done what we never could have managed alone.

The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

Wolf Hall

Do you love her?' she asked him. 'Always have,' he said. 'Then why in the world would you leave her alone?

The Witch of Little Italy

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

The Wanderess

One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.

Writings And Speeches

A beloved daughter who now spent holidays alone.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet.

The Waves

Is there any other time to be dancing alone to 50s music than 5 AM? I wish my grandpa thought so, because I’m trying to sleep in the ballroom.

Xazaqazax

The woman was simply leaving us alone with our future, the future she wouldn't be a part of. She didn't know how to do it or what it was, but she was trying to give it to us.

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