- Love
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought in my wildest dreams I'd ever be offered a record deal, and to get a Christmas No. 1 would be huge for any performer, let alone an ex-footballer.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult to feel as though you are truly being effective at work. Many of us feel trapped in endless meetings, with barely any time to grab lunch, let alone do any work. Overarching strategies and key priorities seem completely divorced from the day-to-day tactics.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The NBA is the best league in the world. It's no way you're going to be able to fill the void that the energy of performing before 20,000 people every night gives you. That's just impossible. So, I just try and move on from that and let it be a moment in time and leave it alone.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father didn't want to ski alone, so he took me up to the mountains in order to basically bribe my mom to come with him.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020