Alone Quotes

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

Whitney Houston

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

Walter Kirn

A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

Walter Kirn

One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of readin...

Walter Kirn

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

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

will.i.am

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

William Osler

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

William Osler

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

Walter Payton

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wallace Stevens

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Walter Scott

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

W. Clement Stone

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

William Shatner

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

William Shenstone

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

William Shirley

My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

William Tyndale

Once you've finished typing and moving text around and everything else, you have to leave it alone for a while. You do that to see if it stands up, to see if all the loose edges have been trimmed, if it makes sense, if it's consistent, what shape it ...

William T. Vollmann

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

William Weld

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

William Butler Yeats

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory w...

William Butler Yeats

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Yousuf Karsh