- Observation
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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
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've fell flat on my face so many times, I'd rather be alone. I learned from the mistake, but I know I'm going to turn around and do it all over again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
- Grown Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm alone in my hotel room in some foreign place, I feel very lonely. Then I tuck into my favourite chocolate - Chuckles or Whispers - for some comfort.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion.
- Nov 07, 2020