All Alone Quotes - Page 10

• To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. 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. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

  James Dean

  Men, Dedication, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

  Thomas Cole

  Old Things, Ifs

  Thomas Cole, Louis Legrand Noble (1853). “The Course of Empire: Voyage of Life, and Other Pictures of Thomas Cole, N.A., with Selections from His Letters and Miscellaneous Writings: Illustrative of His Life, Character, and Genius”, p.81

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• The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone.
  Why alone?
  He's alone so that we might never be alone.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Jesus, Might, Christ

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• The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about "a handsome prince"... was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called handsome? As for "a girl who was as beautiful as the day was long"... well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light! The stories don't want you to think, they just wanted you to believe what you were told.

  Terry Pratchett

  Beautiful, Girl, Book

  "The Wee Free Men". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2003.

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• I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea -- We two will pass through death and ages lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beach, Missing Someone, Sea

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.105, Рипол Классик

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• You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

  Gayle Forman

  Trying, Busy, You Left Me

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.92, Penguin

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• When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathing are all you have. It often looks like egomania. I assure you it's the bold coverup of the absolutely terrified.

  Harlan Ellison

  Self Esteem, Typewriters, Deep Breathing

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Shatterday”, p.199, Open Road Media

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• Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach.

  Jack Kerouac

  Running, Beach, Wine

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.7, Penguin

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• Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Faith, Prayer, Blue

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.46, e-artnow

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• As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.

  Betty Smith

  Girl, Book, House

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Giving Up, Mean, Eye

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 31, 2012

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• If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

  Sojourner Truth

  Strong Women, Truth, Together

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Kings, Home, Fighting

  "There Will Be War". Book by Jerry Pournelle, 1983.

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• Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Nice, Heart, Self

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.39, Grove Press

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• The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Courage, Lying

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

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• It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Motivational, Summer, Softball

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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• If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

  Mitsugi Saotome

  Change, Encouragement, Inspirational Love

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• We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Lonely, Being Single

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Dec 02, 2015

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• Let's leave it all alone. I'm stupidest when I try to be funny.

  Al Swearengen

  Trying, Stupidest

  "Fictional character: Al Swearengen". "Deadwood" TV series, Season 1, Episode 2: "Deep Water", March 28, 2004.

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• I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life, Depressing, Real

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.390, Penguin UK

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• Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.

  Alan Moore

  Lying, Men, Simple

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