Quotes about Alone

Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God."

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

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

God is powerful. He could be my dread champion, my rear guard, the one who fights for me. But I feel like I'm fighting all alone.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. Piety is the possibility of the removal of the last traces of a firm foundation upon which we can erect a system of thought.

If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?

For three years, ever since he had lived in Stanton, he had come here for his only relaxation, to swim, to rest, to think, to be alone and alive, whenever he could find one hour to spare, which had not been often. In his new freedom the first thing he had wanted to do was to come here, because he knew that he was coming for the last time.

It is love alone that counts.

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

Alone, seated in a strange house filled with strangers, I felt as if I were in dangerous waters, swimming badly and out of my depth. I was plankton in an ocean of whales.