Thursday, September 24, 2009

"Alone" quotes.

Buddha
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

Henry David Thoreau
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Ann Landers
It is far better to be alone than to wish you were.

Marilyn Monroe
I restore myself when I'm alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Jean de la Bruyere
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Helen Keller
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Wayne Dyer
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Maya Angelou
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Marilyn Monroe
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone -- so far.

Laurence Sterne
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Blaise Pascal
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

James Dean
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Martin Luther King Jr.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

George Washington
It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Marilyn Monroe
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Dr. Seuss
All alone!Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot.

Chanakya
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.

Dalai Lama
Spend some time alone every day.

3 comments:

  1. Such a happy sounding song about death and suicide:

    In a little while from now
    If I’m not feeling any less sour
    I promise myself to treat myself
    And visit a nearby tower
    And climbing to the top will throw myself off
    In an effort to make it clear to who
    Ever what it’s like when you’re shattered
    Left standing in the lurch at a church
    Where people saying: "My God, that’s tough
    She's stood him up"
    No point in us remaining
    We may as well go home
    As I did on my own
    Alone again, naturally

    To think that only yesterday
    I was cheerful, bright and gay
    Looking forward to well wouldn’t do
    The role I was about to play
    But as if to knock me down
    Reality came around
    And without so much, as a mere touch
    Cut me into little pieces
    Leaving me to doubt
    Talk about God and His mercy
    Or if He really does exist
    Why did He desert me in my hour of need
    I truly am indeed Alone again, naturally

    It seems to me that there are more hearts
    broken in the world that can’t be mended
    Left unattended
    What do we do? What do we do?

    Alone again, naturally
    Now looking back over the years
    And whatever else that appears
    I remember I cried when my father died
    Never wishing to hide the tears
    And at sixty-five years old
    My mother, God rest her soul,
    Couldn’t understand why the only man
    She had ever loved had been taken
    Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken
    Despite encouragement from me
    No words were ever spoken
    And when she passed away
    I cried and cried all day
    Alone again, naturally
    Alone again, naturally

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  2. did u write this? and, not sure your point - I'm grappling, reading this hurts more, not less.

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  3. It's an old Gilbert O'Sullivan song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8

    Not meant to be cruel. You posted a bunch of "alone " quotes, so I added one.

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