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Alone Quotes
Alone doesn't always mean lonely.
The quotes here move between scientific uncertainty and personal isolation, including one reflection on feeling apart from mainstream family values and another on how loud music once made solitude bearable. For a shareable line, see our Status page.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that when I'm standing alone below a thousand-foot wall, looking up and considering a climb, my sponsors are the furthest thing from my mind. If I'm going to take risks, they are going to be for myself - not for any company.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?
- Silence
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always been very important for me to be surrounded by people. It's never been enough for me to be successful alone. I want to be around people my own age who are also doing things I can learn from.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel Noah has been alone for the majority of his life and inherently searching for a family, even though he may not express that outwardly. But his encounter with Rosalee gave him hope in finding someone who thinks like him.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country is not built on one culture alone. We all make up this industry.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won't feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer. I have had to pull it out a few times when I have heard noises at night, but I've never had to use it.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020