Solitude Quotes

"Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person."

"It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone."

"The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action."

"You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love."

"Blood alone moves the wheels of history."

"Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him."

"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."

"I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'"

"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."

"The surest way to be alone is to get married."

"All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God."

"You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone."

"Obama provides hope. Whether he does anything, the hope that he provides for a nation and outside of America is enough. Just being who he is. You're the first black president. If he speaks on any issue or anything, he should be left alone."

"Gandhi, when he was on the salt march, had everyone singing the song of Rabindranath Tagore, which goes, 'Walk alone, walk alone...' Now there's some paradox in that, with a million people on the march! But he was cultivating the thought that each individual has dignity, and the dignity consists partly in the willingness to stand up to authority."

"Do something to help your community or people around you. That will help you feel more worthwhile and less alone."

"Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so."

"I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that."

"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

"We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength."

"Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from governmental restraints."

"If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom."

"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."

"Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists."

"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."

"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."

"The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful."

"I had the privilege of hearing incredibly brave women standing up to tell their stories - harrowing stories that reduced many of us listeners to tears. But with each story, the taboo around domestic abuse weakens and the silence that surrounds it is broken, so other sufferers can know that there is hope for them and they are not alone."

"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."

"People live, work, walk, play, shop, study, and eat with other people. There are few desert dwellers who live alone without depending in some way on people."

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."

"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."

"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."

"Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has."

"We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer."

"I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything."

"No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well."

"We never need feel we are alone or unloved in the Lord's service because we never are. The Savior has promised angels on our left and on our right to bear us up, and he always keeps his word."

"My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people."

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."

"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."

"Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions."

"How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone."

"If you've ever felt like you aren't good enough, you're not alone. However, if you're not careful, those feelings can keep you from reaching your greatest potential."

"Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things."

"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."

"Testing oneself is best when done alone."

"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."