- Life
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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.
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- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very happy alone.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all fail, and we all have weaknesses. I think that's what helps us relate to characters we see on TV or read in books, is that we recognize our frailties within them and maybe don't feel so alone. We get to learn from their mistakes.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing that you're not alone really does make all the difference in the world.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020