Alone
I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough
Author: Rainer Maria RilkeTopics: Alone, Enough, World
A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Alone, Famous, Heaven, Man, Wish
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Alone, Content, Famous, Heaven, Men, Selfishness
All men come into this world alone and leave it alone
Author: Thomas de QuinceyTopics: Alone, Famous, Feelings, Leave, Life
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
Author: Rainer Maria RilkeTopics: Alone, Know, Secret, Things
The English Bible – a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Alone, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Power
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Alone, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Object, Truth
Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
Author: A. E. HousmanTopics: Alone, Faith, Faithfully, Grass, Grateful, Leave, Leaving, Pass, Passes
The Presidency alone unites the conjectures of the public.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Alone, Famous, Presidency, Public, Unites
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Accomplished, Alone, Famous, Forgiveness, Friend, Love, Meaningful, Virtuous
When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Alone, Famous, Life, Lonliness, Silence, Solitude
The master rode alone that day; and in the woods, side by side, White Fang ran with Collie, as his mother, Kiche, and old One Eye had run long years before in the silent Northland forest.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Alone, forest, Master, Mother, Silent
They, as a class, believed that they alone maintained civilization.
Topics: Alone, Civilization, Class, MaintainedHe bowed. ‘The young lady must not dance alone.
Author: Gail Carson LevineTopics: Alone, Dance, Famous, Ladies, Young
You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Alone, Dead, Meat
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Alone, Muscle, Sound, Strong, Trouble
He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.”
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Alone, Environment, Lived, Living, Strength, Strong
I want to be alone and I want people to notice me – both at the same time
Author: Thom YorkeTopics: Alone, Famous, Feelings, Notice
This time of the year I feel alone
Author: Travis ScottTopics: Alone, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Time
My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
Author: Gael Garcia BernalTopics: Alone, Divorce, Famous, Fun, Grew Up, Independent, Mother, Parents, Separated, Single child, Single-parent
Trust and trust alone should lead us to love
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Alone, Famous, Feelings, Leads, Love, Meaningful, Trust
It is love alone that counts
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Alone, Count, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Positive
Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding
Author: TheophrastusTopics: Alone, Define, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Power, Saying, Understanding
My real guru are my experiences in life – the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
Author: Kailash KherTopics: Alone, Experiences, Famous, Gurus, Inspirational, Life Experiences, Real, Real Hero, Realization, Self-motivation, World
It was suitably like limbo to depress the spirits of an ordinary man, let alone one with Alec’s problems.
Author: Kage BakerTopics: Alone, Famous, Ordinary man
Guess I’m hanging’ by myself but I don’t mind.
Author: Kacey MusgravesTopics: Alone, Famous, Hard Time, Mind
The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it’s purpose, which is quite enough
Author: Theophile GautierTopics: Alone, Enough, Famous, Meaningful, Moralise, Painting, Philosophical, Teach
High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
Author: Theophile GautierTopics: Alone, City, Famous, Meaningful
You have to respect your audience. Without them, you’re essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
Author: K. D. LangTopics: Alone, Famous, Impactful Roles, Importance, Singing
The only thing better than “hands-on” experience is hands-off experience – enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Alone, Experience, Experiences, Famous, Hand, Inspirational, Meaningful, Things, Understand
I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Age, Alone, Famous, Hell, Left, Lord, Published, Reason, World
Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Alone, Famous, Hours, Realizing, Sitting
God makes us ask ourselves questions most often when He intends to resolve them. He gives us needs that He alone can satisfy, and awakens capacities that He means to fulfill. Any perplexity is liable to be a spiritual gestation, leading to a new birth and a mystical regeneration.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Alone, Famous, Fulfilling, God, Intends, Leading, Liable, Mystical, Needs, Often, Perplexity, Question, Regeneration, Resolve, Satisfy, Spiritual
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Alone, Disaster, Famous, Feelings, Fruitful, Life, Live, Meaningful, Paradox, Respect, True
A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Alone, Enough, Famous, Feelings, Found, Happiness, Happy, Life, Meaningful, Shared, Sought
To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Alone, Completely, Environment, Everything, Famous, Meaningful, Part, Peace, Prayer, Silence, Unity, Universe
I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Alone, Face, Famous, Fear, Feelings, Inspirational, Leave, Life, Meaningful, Never, Perils
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Alone, Dangerous, Famous, Sin, Virtuous
One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Alone, Everything, Experiences, Falls, Famous, Feelings, Humility, Life, Meaningful, Midst, Nature, Part, Place, Positive, Realize
Tellingly, the department that deals with relations with the rest of the world doesn’t have the word “foreign” in it: it is the State Department. It looks after the interests of one state alone. It might be called the Bargepole Department
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Alone, Department, Interest
So much of the Western tradition deals with the most despairing and angst-ridden emotions, but they’re movies made for kids. It’s as if America was trying to pass on an unpleasant but necessary lesson of life: that you were alone, and you needed to toughen up and shut up
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Alone, Emotion, Emotional Attachment, Emotional distance, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Lesson, Let go, Life, Meaningful, Movies, Moving forward, Necessary, Necessities
For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.
Author: H. G. Wells
Topics: Alone, Existence, Famous, Last man, Left, Mankind
There is no purity to bearing pain alone.
Author: Gabrielle ZevinTopics: Alone, Famous, Pain, Purity
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Alone, Connection, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Love, Meaning, Meaningful, Ourselves, Partnerships, Positive, Relationship, True, Unity
I want women to really feel how honest and vulnerable I am and to understand that they are not alone and that these are all human emotions.
Author: Gabriella WilsonTopics: Alone, Famous, Honest, Human Emotions, Understand, Vulnerable, Want, Women
It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
Author: Theodore RooseveltTopics: Alone, Goal, Life Choices, Life Cycle, life lesson, Reach, Reaching, True, True courage
It is error alone which needs the support of the government. Truth can stand by itself.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Alone, Error, Government, Independence, Support, Trust, Truth, Validation
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Alone, Democracy, Famous, Feelings, Government, Leadership, Meaningful, Participation, Political system, Responsibility, Rulers, Safe, Trust, Trusted
Everyone left and we have remained
on a path that goes on without us.
Topics: Alone, Famous, Lonely, Lost, Path, Poetry, Sad
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Alone, Chemistry, Creation, Creator, Existence, Famous, Feelings, Intelligent, Meaningful, Order, Positive, Proves, Reality, Science, Universe
If I’m drinking I can either be the nicest guy ever or I’m the guy you should leave alone.
Author: Gabriel IglesiasTopics: Alone, Drinking, Famous, Guys, Leave
I never go perform somewhere alone. I’ve done that since day one. I’ve always taken other comics with me.
Author: Gabriel IglesiasTopics: Alone, Comics, Famous, Inspirational, Never, Perform, Take, Together
So Mowgli went away and hunted with the four cubs in the jungle from that day on. But he was not always alone, because years afterward he became a man and married. But that is a story for grown-ups.
Author: Rudyard KiplingTopics: Alone, Hunted, Jungle, Married
The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Alone, Expressing, Falling In Love, Famous, Feeling, Inspirational
I must try and break through the clinches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality, we are all alone.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Alone, Famous, Fought, Outsider, Problems, Reality
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Topics: Alone, Deeply, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Laughing, Laughter, Male friends, Man, Perform, Performance, Perhaps, Sudden, Suffer
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
Topics: Alone, Cross, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Precious, Precious moments
How do you think I’m going to get along
Without you when you’re gone
Author: Freddie MercuryTopics: Alone, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Sudden, Suffer, Thinking, Thinking mind
But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
Author: Franz Kafka
Topics: Alone, Idea, Idea of Freedom, Night, Sleep, Thoughtful, Thoughtful manner, Unhappy
It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, ‘We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we’re not, we cling to.’
Author: Gabriel ByrneTopics: Alone, Famous, Illusion, Inspirational, Live
The worst thing in life is not to end up all alone. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
Author: Robin WilliamsTopics: Alone, Life, People
I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.
Author: Robin WilliamsTopics: Alone, Life, People
Sometimes it’s better to be alone, so nobody can hurt you.
Author: Rod WaveTopics: Alone, Famous, Hurt, Sometimes
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.
Author: Robert Louis StevensonTopics: Alone, Evil, Famous, Good, Human Beings, Mankind
Two people who think they’re in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.”
Author: Ian CaldwellTopics: Alone, Famous, Love, Meaningful, People
All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
Author: Robert FrostTopics: Alone, Famous, Proud
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Alone, Enjoy, Famous, God, Good, Hath, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Reason, Remember, Unhappy
I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Alone, Christ, Famous, Salvation
Christ alone is our example. He is the perfect one whom we are to imitate.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Alone, Christ, Example, Famous, Imitate, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Motivational, Perfect, Positive
To run alone is not sport. To run with others is sport.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Alone, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Others, Run, Sport
You cannot train alone and expect to run a fast time.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Alone, Expect, Fast, Run, Time, Train
Bread, soup – these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
Author: Elie Wiesel
Topics: Alone, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Stomach, Times, Times of difficulty
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Alive, Alone, Always, Lesson, Letting go, Write
Your poor little heart will end up alone ‘Cause Lord knows I’m a rolling stone
Author: Bruno MarsTopics: Alone, Heart, Heart Rate, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Lord, Poor, Rolling, Rolling stone
Your eyes are where I’m lost in Underneath the chandelier We’re dancing all alone
Author: Bruno MarsTopics: Alone, Dancing, Enjoy, Enjoyment, Eyes, Pure, Pure entertainment, Purest
In hopes, you’re on the other side talking to me, too Or am I a fool who sits alone talking to the moon?
Author: Bruno MarsTopics: Alone, Fool, Fooling, Hope, Hope for peace, Hopeful, Lesson, Letting go, Moon, Moral character
The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.
Topics: Alone, Dislike, Little Things, Live
I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.
Author: Richard BachTopics: Alone, Engine, Everything, Face, Famous, Missiles, Shutdown
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
Author: Ray BradburyTopics: Alone, Famous, Feelings, Important, Meaningful, Really
That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Alone, Eternal, Famous, Real, Reveals, Unchanging
Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God’s desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Alone, Complete, Desire, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Alone, Always
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Alone, Experience, Famous, Knowledge, Silence
The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Alone, Exist, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Place
The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Alone, Creation, Exists, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Meaningful