Alone Quotes

“Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" Vanity asks the question, "Is it popular?" But conscience asks the question, "Is it right?"

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.”

“Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

Steve Jobs

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

E. E. Cummings

“Most people are other people.”

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

Judy Garland

“Still waters run deep.”

English Proverb

“Silence is golden.”

English Proverb

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”

Confucius

“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”

Publilius Syrus

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

Anne Frank

“So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.”

“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

Hermann Hesse

“Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others: in both ways it improves our character.”

“To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind.”

Lord Byron

“Solitude is the fate of all outstanding minds.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice.”

Alice Koller

“There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.”

“Loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”

Thomas Wolfe

“We live, as we dream, alone.”

Joseph Conrad

“I never was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.”

Daniel Boone

“I celebrate myself.”