Me Alone Quotes - Page 9

• But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

  Pia Zadora

  Husband, Party, Important

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• Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women - women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in - older women and younger men.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Hurt, Men

  "Bourgeois". Book by Louise Bourgeois and ‎Donald Burton Kuspit (p. 76), 1988.

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• I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Leave Me Alone, Never Leave Me, Leaving Me

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.452, Hachette UK

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• That’s because you ooze preemptive leave-me-alone death rays.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Leave Me Alone, Rays, Leaving Me

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• Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

  Daniel Keyes

  Fall, Leave Me Alone, Want

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.

  Zona Gale

  Time, Stars, Sunset

  "Friendship Village Love Stories".

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• why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

  David Levithan

  Heart, Leave Me Alone, Ashes

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.20, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to touch. But I love you. Do you love me. What to say when you see me.

  Robert Creeley

  Love You, Moon, Hands

  Robert Creeley, Benjamin Friedlander (2008). “Selected Poems, 1945-2005”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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• Family is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't mean you can't do other stuff in your life. In fact, having a family makes whatever other thing you have that much richer. If it was just me, I'd be home alone and think, 'Well, something good happened at work,' but it's much nicer to share it with people you love.

  Ben Affleck

  Dad, Home, Mean

  "Ben Affleck: Fatherhood Has Made Me a 'Richer Person'" by Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. January 10, 2013.

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• Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.

  Sarah Kane

  Wish, I Loved You, Courses

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.240, A&C Black

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• Reading is always a way of forming a bond with other people. I'm not very good at socializing - I quite like spending time alone - so reading is a way of engaging quite deeply with the way other people think. Quite often when you meet other people socially you don't get to have a conversation of any depth. You end up talking about how well or how badly someone is doing at school or something of that sort. Questions like, "What we are," "Who we are," "Where are we going," you get those from literature and from people that spend some time thinking.

  Stuart Franklin

  Reading, School, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw.

  Haruki Murakami

  Men, Looks, Faces

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.59, Random House

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• It's nearly full dark. We should go." "We? I thought you were going to leave me alone." "I lied," Jace said without a shred of embarrassment.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Leave Me Alone, Lied

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought of rhyme alone,
  For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
  And make the daylight sweet once more.

  William Butler Yeats

  Happiness, Sweet, Poetry

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Mother, Dream

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• For those of you who are seeing the spiritual life, I recommend these four daily practices: Spend time alone each day in receptive silence. When angry, or afflicted with any negative emotion, take time to be alone with God. (Do not talk with people who are angry; they are irrational and cannot be reasoned with. If you or they are angry, it is best to leave and pray.) Visualize God's light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Exercise the body, it is the temple of the soul.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Exercise, Practice

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• It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.

  Galileo Galilei

  Sky, Envy, Granted

  "How three wise men and a tube helped us find our place in the universe" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2009.

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• Home alone with a wakeful newborn, I could shower so quickly that the mirror didn't fog and the backs of my knees stayed dry. The one-minute hair conditioner was too slow for me.

  Marni Jackson

  Home, Mirrors, Hair

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• Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Leave Me Alone, Neighbor, Leaving Me

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• Deep at the bottom of the well no warmth has yet returned,
  The rain which sighs and feels so cold has dampened withered roots.
  What sort of man at such a time would come to visit the teacher?
  As this is not a time for flowers, I find I've come alone.

  Su Shi

  Teacher, Rain, Flower

  Su Shi, “Visiting The Temple Of Auspicious Fortune Alone On Winter Solstice”

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• Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him.

  Kay Arthur

  Prayer, Confused, Believe

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• Solitude can become your most meaningful companion and it can assist you in being a more giving person in your spiritual partnerships. Rather than regarding your partner's need for time alone as a threat, see it as a time of renewal that you celebrate. Make every effort to help each other have that space. Treat that space as sacred.

  Wayne Dyer

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Space

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• The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

  Olivia Wilde

  Husband, Thinking, Healthy

  "Olivia Wilde Finalizes Divorce". www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Do not expect to grow in holiness if you spend little time alone with God and do not take His Word seriously.

  Joel Beeke

  Alone With God, Holiness, Littles

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• Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time.

  Alex D. Linz

  Home, Long, Able

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