Quotes about "alone"

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Sell also: entirely, exclusively, lone, lonely, solely, solitary, solo, unaccompanied, unequaled, unique, unparalleled

Definitions and meanings of word "alone"

• Adj: isolated from others; examples: "could be alone in a crowded room", "was alone with her thoughts", "I want to be alone"

• Adj: lacking companions or companionship; examples: "he was alone when we met him", "she is alone much of the time", "the lone skier on the mountain", "a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel", "a lonely soul", "a solitary traveler"

• Adj: exclusive of anyone or anything else; examples: "she alone believed him", "cannot live by bread alone", "I'll have this car and this car only"

• Adj: radically distinctive and without equal; examples: "he is alone in the field of microbiology", "this theory is altogether alone in its penetration of the problem", "Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint", "craftsmen whose skill is unequaled", "unparalleled athletic ability", "a breakdown of law unparalleled in our history"

• Adv: without any others being included or involved; examples: "was entirely to blame", "a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children", "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively", "did it solely for money", "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone", "a privilege granted only to him"

• Adv: without anybody else; examples: "the child stayed home alone", "he flew solo"

Featured authors with quotes containing word "alone"

Paul Tillich
4 quotes about alone
German Philosopher, Theologian
Friday 20 August 1886 - Friday 22 October 1965
Emily Carr
2 quotes about alone
Canadian Writer, Artist
Wednesday 13 December 1871 - Friday 2 March 1945
Henry David Thoreau
6 quotes about alone
American Philosopher, Critic, Poet, Historian, Author
Saturday 12 July 1817 - Tuesday 6 May 1862
Jean de la Bruyere
6 quotes about alone
French Philosopher
1645 - 1696
Audrey Hepburn
3 quotes about alone
Belgian Actress
Saturday 4 May 1929 - Wednesday 20 January 1993
Martin Luther
5 quotes about alone
German Leader
Saturday 10 November 1483 - Monday 18 February 1546
Maya Angelou
one quote about alone
American Poet, Author
Wednesday 4 April 1928 - Wednesday 28 May 2014
Anna Letitia Barbauld
2 quotes about alone
English Poet
Thursday 20 June 1743 - Wednesday 9 March 1825
Chanakya
one quote about alone
Indian Philosopher, Politician
350 B.C. - 275 B.C.
Orison Swett Marden
3 quotes about alone
American Writer
1850 - 1924
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4 quotes about alone
German Writer, Poet, Artist, Politician
Thursday 28 August 1749 - Thursday 22 March 1832
Ashley Judd
4 quotes about alone
American Actress, Activist
Born Friday 19 April 1968

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.

Maya Angelou

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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.

Maya Angelou

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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Maya Angelou

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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

Maya Angelou

Words: laugh, alone, weep, why, pray
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Maya Angelou

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Maya Angelou

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Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Maya Angelou

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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Maya Angelou

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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Maya Angelou

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The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

Maya Angelou

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You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Maya Angelou

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It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Maya Angelou

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Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

Maya Angelou

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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Maya Angelou

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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Maya Angelou

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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

Maya Angelou

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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Maya Angelou

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Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

Maya Angelou

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I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

Maya Angelou

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I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.

Maya Angelou

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