Quotes about Alone

“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.”

“No man is an island. No man stands alone.”

“The Obama administration has consistently refused to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli territory, let alone as the capital of Israel.”

“One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there's no way in which they alone can surmount the problems which they create.”

“For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.”

“To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.”

“My mom's always been a good cook, so I took a lot of stuff from her, but most of the stuff I took from Emeril or Bobby Flay right off the TV and make it. I just loved to cook, so it just became a thing. It's a release. Even if I'm alone, I'll cook a full meal, maybe even a two-course meal, just because I love to cook. It's my secret love!”

“The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.”

“Testing oneself is best when done alone.”

“However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.”

“Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.”

“We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.”

“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.”

“Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.”

“I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”

“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.”

“I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.”

“Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.”

“In the country of pain we are each alone.”

“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”

“As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.”