Been Alone Quotes

...we've never really been alone. Maybe lonely, but never alone. — Hannah Brencher

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. — Marilynne Robinson

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Xav!
Got you. Not letting you go.
I realised I wasn't alone in mental deep space; he had always been there and could pilot me home. — Joss Stirling

I have friends, they love me, the use me, they leave.
This has always been a cycle.
Until you came and ruined everything. — Anonymous

I've been in relationships where I've felt terribly alone. Just because you're with someone, it doesn't mean you're happy. — George Clooney

We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time ... — Edgar Mitchell

The fact is, there's a difference between being alone and being lonely; I may not of been completely alone in life, but I was definitely lonely. — Brent Hartinger

As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions. — Teresa Medeiros

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also. — George Eliot

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible. — Mark Rylance

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life — Sophocles

I've never been tempted to sleep with the same woman every night myself. Let alone reproduce myself in a leaky, noisy miniature human. — Eloisa James

I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone. — Thomas Paine

We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films. — David Heyman

You said on my birthday that you were afraid of being alone, but I've been here this whole time. This whole time. — Stephanie Perkins

He and his mother weren't close and never had been, really. In this, as in so much else in his life, Jess was alone — Rachel Caine

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush. — Karl Kraus

I haven't been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind. — Charlotte Eriksson

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind. — Sarah McLachlan

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own ... — Patrick Kavanagh

I was more alone than if I had been alone. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation. — Anton Szandor LaVey

Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another's loneliness strange. — Robert Walser

It was my decision, it always has been. I decide my own destiny. I can be guided towards it but in the end the decision is mine alone. — S.E. Fearon

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been. — Agathon

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog. — William Shatner

Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium. — Amanda Steele

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty. — Markus Zusak

I've been lucky, for no one should ever be forced to march through life alone. — Nicholas Sparks

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore. — James Frey

He had been raised, after all, to stand alone and always to do what he believed to be right. — Mary Balogh

I don't like being alone. I haven't been alone since I got a boyfriend. — Molly Ringwald

The stone had been rolled away ... That fact alone demands a response. — Charles Martin

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair. — Clint Eastwood

For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive. — H.G.Wells

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone. — David Cameron

I've never been nearly as alone as I always say I am — Jill Alexander Essbaum

For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone. — Margaret Stohl

Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understang why I hate myself so badly. — Orson Scott Card

O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

They sat so still that each of them might have been alone. — Joan G. Robinson

I must have been through about a million girls, I'd love 'em and leave 'em alone. I didn't care how much they'd cry. — Elvin Bishop

Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?
You called me and I answered — Leigh Bardugo

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

In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world. — Jane Austen

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead. — Brooke Burns

I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night. — Nelson Gidding

She had often been alone in the house before - but she had never before been so conscious of being alone in it. — Agatha Christie

I have been alone so long, scared of myself and for myself, deprived of so many freedoms. — Alessandra Torre

I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now? — Kate DiCamillo

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy. — Richard E. Grant

Jane Eyre may be an orphan, homely, battered, alone and abandoned, but she is not, never has been and never will be a big fat sausage. — Fanny Britt

I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed. — Lee Daniels

She's been living alone with a man for ten years, so of course she's ruined, even though the girls all say he never puts a hand on them. — Naomi Novik

I might have kissed her the way I wanted to, or told her how I loved her more than anyone ever would. If we'd been all alone, we would have been free. — S. Celi

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like. — Lucinda Williams

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you. — Anna Nicole Smith

No, he hadn't just dragged her to California. He'd dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that
should have been his alone to bear. — Lauren Kate

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company. — Don Henley

For this alone is lacking even to God, to make undone the things that have once been done. (Quoting Agathon) — Aristotle.

Spend a long time alone, especially if you're someone who's never been that social to begin with, and you find yourself craving solitude. — Ron Rash

It was a message from her. A reminder - here among hundreds of people - of a moment that had been theirs alone. — Veronica Rossi

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. — Jonathan Ames

The wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of mangled men, who had been trained for this — Seth Tucker

Septimus has been working too hard - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought. — Virginia Woolf

I've spent all my life alone. And when you've been alone as long as I have, you realize that solitude means much more than being alone. — Dorian Zari

To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back. — Barack Obama

I realized I had never been alone like this before. — Rebecca Donovan

He was alone," I cried. "He didn't have anyone with him- he must of been so scared. I told him we would stay together. — Alexandra Bracken

I've never been afraid of being alone. For the sake of my work, I must be! — Ochiai Naoyuki

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. — William Osler

Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it. — Asafa Powell

Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone. — Robert Anton Wilson

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before. — Michael Collins

It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love. — Sophocles

But the walls of my resolve
mortared with stubbornness
have been breached
by circumstances
I cannot handle alone. — Susie Clevenger

The bread was so powerfully aromatic that, had I been alone, I would have been tempted to push my face into it. — Michael Pollan

I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I'll make an exception. — Tom Upton

Orgasms, for her, had been what she faked with a man and provided herself when she was alone, — Linda Howard

I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Even when they have been felled, let alone when they are still standing and fighting, they never disgrace themselves, — Tom Holland

I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn't have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him. — Jojo Moyes

So often I have felt alone in my journey, yet I've been afraid to let anyone see my fear and weakness. — Lynn Austin

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone. — E. M. Forster

And then I knew that the voice
of the spirits had been let in
as intense as an epileptic aura
and that no longer would I sing
alone. — Anne Sexton

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done. — Aristotle.

This has been a covert preparation for an overt operation." - Rory in NEVER GO ALONE — Denison Hatch

I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers. — Ernest Hemingway,

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself. — Sylvia Plath

Like most thin-skinned people who have been snubbed, he could not leave the snubbers alone. — M.C. Beaton

And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone. — Carl Sagan

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me's private. I'm surprised anyone's able to understand a word I say. — Kurt Vonnegut

The country she had taken for granted as her own, where she had been born, whose language alone she spoke, had rejected her and despised her. — Pearl S. Buck

I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight. — Peter S. Beagle

The two of them might as well have been alone. It was the kind of look that people in love exchanged, or people who were about to kill each other. — Rachel Caine

The gradual and imperceptible subsidence of the waters, that's the alluvium. Thus am I gradually left alone, thus have I been left alone. — Juan Gabriel Vasquez

He hated him for the twenty-three year old his mother had been, younger than he now was when she'd died, alone and sorrowful. — Sarah J. Maas