- Me
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do people who live utterly alone survive? There are so many things that won't open. I've got a few dresses in New York, and I can somehow get them on, but I can't get them off.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.
- Gentleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's almost impossible to get a movie all together when there are two main cast members, let alone an ensemble cast with everyone's schedules. It's crazy if it works out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
History shows the power-grab in every religion once it gets organised. And then it's people making you do things that you don't agree with and setting the rules. But it does mean something to me to believe that we are not alone - the human animal is quite a scary thing, left on its own.
- Coerce
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- Nov 07, 2020
She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
- Grocery Shopping
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was funny being at high school and also grocery shopping and having a job. Other kids were going home to their parents, who were doing their laundry, and I was like, 'Wait, what?' I was super isolated. I was 16, alone in New York, and modelling.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020