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Alone Quotes (page 82)

Agatha Christie quote: "Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be..."
Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone. Agatha Christie
I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone. Jean-Paul Sartre
It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me? William Shakespeare
Susan Sontag quote: "Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to..."
Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same. Susan Sontag
George Orwell quote: "He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable."
He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. George Orwell
John Mayer quote: "Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it."
Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it. John Mayer
Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent. Frederick Buechner
Haruki Murakami quote: "A person probably couldn't live without pride. But living by..."
A person probably couldn't live without pride. But living by pride, alone the prospects were too dark. Way too dark. Haruki Murakami
I had never thought I had much in common with anybody. I had no mother, no father, no roots, no biological similarities called sisters and brothers. And for a future I didn't want a split-level home with a station wagon, pastel refrigerator, and a houseful of blonde children evenly spaced through the years. I didn't want to walk into the pages of McCall's magazine and become the model housewife. I didn't even want a husband or any man for that matter. I wanted to go my own way. That's all I... Rita Mae Brown
I asked for so little!” she kept saying, as though her diminished demands alone should have protected her against any disappointments. But I think she was mistaken; she had actually asked for a lot. She had dared to ask for happiness, and she had dared to expect that happiness out of her marriage. You can’t possibly ask for more than that. Elizabeth Gilbert
Luther had said that grace alone can save; his followers took up his doctrine and repeated it word for word. But they left out its invariable corollary, the obligation to discipleship...The justification of the sinner in the world degenerated into the justification of sin and the world. Costly grace was turned into cheap grace without discipleship. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by. Jack Kerouac
The divine reproach Jesus felt so exquisitely, because of His meekly standing in for us, fulfilled yet another prophecy: ‘Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none’ (Ps. 69:20). His heart was broken, as He did ‘suffer both body and spirit’ (D& C 19:18). He trembled because of pain, and yet He, amidst profound aloneness, finished His preparations, bringing to pass the ... Neal A. Maxwell
I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world. Haruki Murakami
Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart. Wendell Berry

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