- People
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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
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband.
- Introspection
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to play with my back to the goal, but my colleagues have to tell me when I'm alone or how much room I have so I can choose to pass or to go straight for the goal.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it's only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listened to the veteran wrestlers that had tons of experience, like Leo Burke. I was never really alone.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020