- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
- Canst
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.
- Determining
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- Nov 07, 2020
History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At age 10, or even 15, it would have meant the world to me to see a Pakistani girl portrayed positively, let alone as a comic book superhero.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered. Whether a young reader becomes a writer or not, they deserve to know that their story, whatever it may be, is important.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a good time for me, but it's only recently I've become comfortable in my job. At the start, it's hard having the nerve to call yourself an actor, let alone doing it. I gave myself two years after drama school, and if I didn't make it, then I'd give it up.
- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.
- Grail
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's really the Holy Grail of conducting: how to change the sound of an orchestra just with our hands alone.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.
- Sad
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.
- Nov 07, 2020
I work when I'm alone, but I have children and a family and a job, so alone time is at a premium.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020