Quotes of: Being-alone Keyword

This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.

Will Self

New year is a day, to tune the rhythm called SOUL, with best chords called EXPERIENCES and play the guitar called LIFE.

10 Alone

Give your best. It doesn't mean you'll get back best. Rather that doesn't mean you give up giving your best.

10 Alone

Problems are like your own shadow. If you look at them you will miss the sunshine. So.. Turn back.. towards the light.. and go on.

10 Alone

The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.

10 Alone

We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.

Anthem

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated.

Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

I miss that world from the safe distance of memory.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of consumption.

Sleeping Partners

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

Storyville

I only feel like myself when I am alone.

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.

Truly, Madly, Deeply

Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

Ulysses

I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I’ll make an exception.

Vanished

she wasn't very interesting but few people are.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

Mrs. Dalloway

The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it's a miracle.

Sheila Stubbs

I’m good when I’m alone. I’m comfortable when I’m alone. I can sit and do lots of things all by myself. Sex included.

Johnny Weir