Alone Quotes
Bomanz sighed. A man couldn’t get five minutes alone. What the hell did he get married for? Why did any man? You spent the rest of your life doing hard time, doing what other people wanted, not what you wanted.
Śāntarakṣita
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You know what I call him? Not Roy O'Bannon. Roy O'Baloney!
Wang Chong
The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.
Sappho
Just don't leave me alone.
Fazıl Say
The fact that Saigyō composed the poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. He also wrote:
In the mountain village
who are you calling, yobuko-bird?
I thought you lived alone.
Matsuo Bashō
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To hell with the fate that makes you share a man... You slave like the maid, but without the pay. If I had known how it would go, I think I would have lived alone.
Hồ Xuân Hương
I felt less alone when I didn't know you yet: I was waiting for the other. I thought only of his strength and never of my weakness. And now here you are, Orestes, it was you. I look at you and I see that we are two orphans.
Che Noir
Bassam: Feeling hydrated? Never had a bath before. [shakes the water off] Lost 2 pounds in dirt alone.
Molly Wright
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
Akio Morita
The Western Wing is not a work written by an individual named Wang Shifu alone; if I read it carefully, it will also be a work of my own creation, because all the words in The Western Wing happen to be the words that I want to say and that I want to write down.
Zhang Dai
Living unloved, to die unknown,
Unwept, untended and alone.
Sappho
The public use of a man's reason must be free at all times, and this alone can bring enlightenment among men...
Immanuel Kant
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
James Baldwin
Without hope of reward
Provide help to others.
Bear suffering alone,
And share your pleasures with beggars.
Nāgārjuna
[J]ustification of power must be the central problem. For it is through this problem alone that freedom and equality—or... justice—can be projected into the social and political reality... But to fascism the problem does not even exist except as a ridiculous relic of "Jewish liberalism.
Peter F. Drucker
There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute. Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
Confucius