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12/21/2022 by Dan Jack/BarTalk

THIS EDITION: alone :: solitude

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Quoted In The Grove:
All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
~Jean De La Bruyere

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
~John Barrymore

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
~Wayne Dyer

EndQuote:
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
~D H Lawrence

Next Prompt: strange

People think being alone is a luxury, but it’s crucial: Whatever you’re not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.
~Earl Sweatshirt

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closets.
~Charles Caleb Colton

I don’t mind being alone. Conversation’s better.
~Helen Jellicoe

If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
~Jean Paul Sartre

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There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still otherswhen it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
~Colette

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
~Aeschylus

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
~Octavio Paz

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
~Goethe

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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
~Thomas Jefferson

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
~Liberty Hyde Bailey

Sitting alone, sleeping alone, acting alone, let the diligent one enjoy the forest, taming the self alone.
~Buddha

He travels the fastest who travels alone.
~Rudyard Kipling

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone…
~William Hazlitt

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can’t find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

…I got fascinated by silence; by what happens to the human spirit, to identity and personality when the talking stops, when you press the off button, when you venture out into that enormous emptiness.
~Sara Maitland (How to Be Alone)

When such places are not within reach, there is always the sky above, so vast and mysterious that I must gather myself into a close tight entity in self-defense, lest I be lost in that vastness. Or, it is possible to be most of all alone, to possess one’s self most completely in the silence.
~Cid Ricketts Sumner

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
~Anne Frank

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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
~Thomas Wolfe

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
~St Jerome

I tour alone. There’s no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts; I am in a family home and it’s really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it’s a new relationship being built. It’s odd and wonderful.
~Jane Siberry

It’s necessary to start most work alone. But I’m tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it’s borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.
~Jenny Holzer

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
~William Blackstone

Work alone is noble.
~Thomas Carlyle

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
~Henry David Thoreau

I mean I’m told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
~Harold Bloom

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
~Sophie Swetchine

Now, on nights that I can’t sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
~Namie Amuro

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Posted From The Grove

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
~Benito Mussolini

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
~Martin Luther

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
~Pericles

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
~Paracelsus

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
~Leo Tolstoy

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
~Ibrahim Babangida

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
~John F Kennedy

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
~Thomas Jefferson

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
~Mao Zedong

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
~Joe Biden

Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands, or your own genuine solitude? Freedom, or power over an entire nation. A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.
~Rumi

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
~Paul Brunton

If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.
~Jules Renard

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
~Baltasar Gracian

Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others.
~Romain Rolland

Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
~Berthold Auerbach

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough to truly consecrate the hour…I want my free will and want it accompanying the path which leads to action; and want during times that beg questions, where something is up, to be among those in the know, or else be alone.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
~W E B Du Bois

Marches alone won’t bring integration when human respect is disintegratin’
~Barry McGuire

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
~Louis D Brandeis

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people’s rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
~Leonard Peltier

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power… the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
~Patrick Henry

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
~Thomas Jefferson

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
~John Quincy Adams

Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.
~Thomas Frank

You can’t walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
~Peter Abrahams

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
~Voltaire

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
~Samuel E Morison

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man’s being, unfolding itself in thought.
~Karl Jaspers

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
~Dan Savage

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
~Herodotus

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.
~Grover Norquist

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
~John Updike

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
~James Russell Lowell

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
~Charles de Gaulle

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
~Pope John XXIII

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
~Chief Joseph

~Maxime // Menilmonde: Alone (3:02) eerily alone in vast city settings …wait for it

~Farhan Muhammed T.K: Edgar Allen Poe • Alone (1:40) a poem by Poe

~Elohim.atoms: Alone (2:57) song, dance: to cry alone

~Mohamed Mahmoud: Alone (2:12) stellar numbers suggest… a meditation

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone – many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
~Richard Nelson Bolles

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
~David Hume

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
~Calvin Coolidge

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
~Orison Swett Marden

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
~Deepak Chopra

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.
~Janet Napolitano

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
~E O Wilson

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
~Calvin Coolidge

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
~Stendhal

§ VIDEO:
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.
~James Dean

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.
~Greta Scacchi

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
~Anne Hathaway

On some level I walk through the world like the adult human version of the baby bird in Are You My Mother? Subconsciously waiting for someone to see that I am very take-care-of-able, can I live with you now? I know you are my age, but have you ever thought of adopting an adult.
~Lane Moore

I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
~Yousuf Karsh

An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
~Henry Miller

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
~Rollo May

Leave me alone;
to battle my loneliness till the time
I emerged irrevocably triumphant;
sprinted forward in untamed exhilaration
to bask in the full fervor of life.
~Nikhil Parekh

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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your own presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
~Alice Koller

The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
~Justin Timberlake

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you’ve no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let’s face it, we don’t often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.
~Diana Wynn Jones

~Omeleto: Puppet Me (11:19) grief, a mentor puppet changing hands

~Dust: Alone (18:49) a better angel attending?

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
~Leni Riefenstahl

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
~Sigmund Freud

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
~Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: “Are your ready?”
~Johnny Carson

I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.
~Lady Gaga

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I’ve hit the lottery.
~Justin Long

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
~Winona Ryder

The best thing I’ve learned is, if you’re going out, never go out alone – you leave yourself vulnerable. If you’ve got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.
~Daniel Radcliffe

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
~William O Douglas

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.
~Kangana Ranaut

I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.
~Leonardo DiCaprio

It’s like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I’m so not that. I never was that; I’ll never be that. That is part of the business that I don’t like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don’t know. But that’s fine.
~Chloe Sevigny

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
~Orison Swett Marden

You’d think I’d have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it’s an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.
~Kenny Chesney

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
~Janis Joplin

§ MUSIC:

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you’re essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
~K D Lang

When I’m alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
~Mikhail Baryshnikov

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
~Peabo Bryson

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you’re going through to realize that you’re not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it’s not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.
~Sarah McLachlan

Music is amazing. There’s some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone… truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
~Wayne Coyne

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on ‘The Simpsons,’ for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I’m doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I’ll stay after class for another hour or two.
~Hank Azaria

Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I’ve never played with a band. I’ve always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.
~Steve Martin

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
~Quintilian

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That’s not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
~Edie Brickell

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
~Jeanette Winterson

We cannot avoid being alone, so we’d better learn to love our own company. We learn our greatest life lessons alone. We discover the truth of who we are alone.
~Susan L Taylor

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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
~Frida Kahlo

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It’s the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
~Philip Guston

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
~Theodore Gericault

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.
~Glenn Beck

~for King & Country: Little Drummer Boy (4:59) the journey of a gift

Heart’s: ALONE

~TruthSurge: (3:42) bearded old dood has got some pipes, con brio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkmeJGxHoXk

~Milissa Ouimet (3:02) the look, severe; the voice, impassioned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPlgiS79l6g

~Kelsy Karter & The Heroines (2:43) sultry solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nRjsiTcSV8

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~Darlene Love: All Alone On Christmas (4:23) home alone, to music

~Joe Jonas & Khalid: Not Alone (4:12) some protect, and those who listen

~Nico Collins: Alone (3:54) boy broken

~Tarja Turunen: Minniva • I Walk Alone (4:34) operatic, captivating nonetheless

~Gilbert O’Sullivan: Alone Again • Trang Tooc, Duy Khang and Khoa Le (3:39) winsome rendition

~Nickelback: Never Gonna Be Alone (3:48) the Dad promise

~Alice Dedjay: Better Off Alone (2:55) Lyrics LTD, but catchy

~vivien sarkany: Safina Sadisa • Alone (4:44) page-turning, cute, clever

~adeli naiad: live alone (3:13 the answer, generally? live alone

~NTNU: Little Drummer Boy (4:35) again ‒ with somebody else

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
~Mother Teresa

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
~Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes its better to be alone, no one can hurt you that way.
~Tinku Razoria

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
~Henry David Thoreau

My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.
~Warsan Shire

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share.
~Rajneesh

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
~Fiona Apple

I think it’s very healty to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
~Oscar Wilde

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
~Mandy Hale

You need to know how to be alone in order to know how to be together.
~Sherry Turkle

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.
~Robert Brault

To be alone: You must have something to be alone from.
~Queen of the Beggars, Thief

You’ve got to be fond of yourself enough to support yourself emotionally regardless of the intimate company of someone else.
~Chidere Eggerue

You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don’t go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
~Daisy Fuentes

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
~Charles Lindbergh

I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.
~Jane Fonda

I’m done with men… I’m going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don’t think I’m made for marriage.
~Halle Berry

I don’t know. I think it’s funny! I think it’s funny! I go, what? It’s so absurd. I’m alone.
~Danny DeVito

If you’re truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there’s a family bond that you have. In fact, I’ve talked about this with therapists, especially if you’re talking about a relationship, because when you’re with somebody, you’re going to your family, and she’s alone.
~Gary Allan

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
~Elizabeth Bowen

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
~Jean de la Bruyere

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
~Franz Kafka

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
~Igor Stravinsky

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
~Thomas Merton

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
~George Edward Moore

It is very easy to love alone.
~Gertrude Stein

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Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one’s wife alone.
~Guru Nanak

To preserve good health and sound nerves, women should always make it a rule to be quite alone at least for a couple of hours in the course of each day. Let them take that space to think, to read, to rest, and mentally review their own thoughts, words and actions in the light of a quiet conscience-time of pause and meditation.
~Marie Corelli

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
~Honore de Balzac

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
~Coco Chanel

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
~Maria Mitchell

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
~Salma Hayek

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers – and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
~Margaret Sanger

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
~Thornton Wilder

Alone by herself she built the kingdom that she wanted.
~R H Sin

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I’m a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I’m making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.
~Glenn Beck

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
~Ludwig van Beethoven

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I’d get ready by myself. I’d set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.
~Janet Jackson

I have grown up alone. I’ve taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
~Ingrid Bergman

It’s always easier if you have the support of your family, if you’re not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together.
~Novak Djokovic

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don’t feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
~Padma Lakshmi

I don’t know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.
~Elizabeth Hurley

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
~Andre Maurois

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
~Whitney Houston

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family ‘gets together’ alone.
~Ashley Montagu

I’m more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well – obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.
~Jenna Bush

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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.
~Haruki Murakami

Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation, for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.
~George Washington

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
~Samuel Johnson

There are days when you seek the company of your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.
~Robert Brault

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
~Orson Welles

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
~Helen Keller

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
~Johann Kaspar Lavater

When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.
~Fiona Apple

There’s a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I’ve got to see my friends ’cause I’m too content being by myself.
~Drew Barrymore

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
~Francesca Annis

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace; think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
~William Butler Yeats

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
~Anne Lamott

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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
~Paul Valery

I think it’s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.
~Amy Sedaris

When I get into bed at night, I hope I don’t get into it alone!
~Calvin Klein

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
~Emo Philips

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey… Doesn’t try it on.
~Billy Connolly

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
~Erma Bombeck

‘Home Alone’ was a movie, not an alibi.
~Jerry Orbach

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.
~Marjorie M Liu

Jamestown excepting, to die a suicide is to die alone.
~author unknown

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
~Martin Luther

We come alone and we leave alone. Everything else is a gift.
~Michael Brandon

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.
~William Hull

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
~Sophocles

It is good society that would cause me to part company with myself. Even as a boy I could enjoy being alone… When it comes down to the last analysis, when we stand face to face with death, each man has to take care of himself.
~George A Dorsey

Virtue alone has majesty in death.
~Edward Young

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
~Wallace Stevens

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
~Martha Beck

It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.
~Billy Idol

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
~Albert Pike

What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life’s page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now.
~Lord Byron

Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I’m dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They’re nowhere. I know they’re nowhere and they don’t exist, but if nowhere means that’s where they are, that’s where I want to be.
~Maurice Sendak

It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me.
~Jodie Foster

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
~Paul Johannes Tillich

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
~Voltaire

The reason old souls enjoy spending time alone is because they never really are.
~author unknown

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
~Robert Cormier

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
~John Dryden

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
~Albert Einstein

As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.
~Sienna Miller

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
~Ellen Burstyn

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
~Antonio Porchia

Age is such an island, such a canyon, with such satisfactions, such subtle beauty of its own that one must seek it out and can find it only when he himself is reduced to his essential being. Then at last one is no longer afraid of being alone, indeed solitude has come to be a prize cherished and longed for…
~Cid Ricketts Sumner

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Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they’ll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.
~Jim Hunt

There are many youths, and some men, who most earnestly devote themselves to solitary studies, from the mere love of the pursuit.
~James G Percival

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
~Horace Mann

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
~John Jay Chapman

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
~Dr Seuss

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.
~Vivienne Westwood

All alone! Whether you like it or not,
alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!
~Dr Seuss

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Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.
~Mark Goulston

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
~Swami Vivekananda

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
~Paul Cezanne

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
~Marcel Proust

@Writers Platform

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
~Emily Dickinson

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
~Michel de Montaigne

I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people’s minds.
~Jodi Picoult

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people’s minds. That’s pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
~Nicolas Cage

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
~William Albert Allard

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
~Napoleon Hill

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
~Laura Bush

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
~Horace

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
~Jessamyn West

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
~Pablo Picasso

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
~Charlie Chaplin

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
~Audrey Hepburn

Walking in silence was nice… Being with you, it’s a lot like being alone.
~Hayes Davenport & Alena Smith (to Emily Dickinson)

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known ‒ then went crazy as a loon.
~The Simpsons

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I’m really scared of being alone; because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman.
~Claire Danes

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don’t choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
~Tom Sizemore

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don’t want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
~James Ellroy

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.
~Joshua Slocum

From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don’t think one can find any other time in one’s life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.
~Mohsen Makhmalbaf (writer/director/political prisoner)

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare – let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
~Chaim Potok

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
~Robert Delaunay

I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show…
~Anna Paquin

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
~Archibald MacLeish

In solitude, the soundless dialogue which the soul holds with herself finally becomes audible.
~Jennifer Stitt

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
~Robert Frost

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
~Samuel Prout

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
~Thomas Hardy

Prewritten Prompt: alone

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
~Sri Aurobindo

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
~Sivananda

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
~William Law

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
~Abu Bakar Bashir

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
~Abu Bakar Bashir

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
~Karl Barth

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
~Jaron Lanier

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
~Philip Schaff

The English Bible – a book which, if everything else in our should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
~Thomas B Macaulay

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
~Edward Sapir

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
~Martin Luther

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
~Jesus Christ

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
~Clifford D Simak

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
~John Burroughs

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
~Albert Camus

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone…
~Lord Byron

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man’s ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
~Geoffrey Fisher

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave god alone. He has enough problems.
~Elie Wiesel

In the quiet, unexpressed, unwrestled-through disappointments, Satan is handcrafting his most damning weapons against us and those we love. It’s his subtle seduction to get us alone with our thoughts so he can slip in whispers that will develop our disappointments into destructive choices. If the enemy can isolate us, he can influence us.
~Lysa Terkeurst

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
~Joseph Conrad

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
~Chanakya

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
~Buddha

Alone …
The word is life endured and known.
It is the stillness where our spirits walk
And all but inmost faith is overthrown.
~Siegfried Sassoon

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine
By which alone the mortal heart is led
Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
~George Santayana

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees,
And looks to God alone;
Laughs at impossibilities,
And cries it shall be done.
~Charles Wesley

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
~Benjamin Franklin

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
~Franz Liszt

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
~John Locke

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
~Lana Del Rey

If it is God’s will that I should be alone all my days, I shall not murmur, for my solitude is not actual loneliness. Work is a good comrade, ‒ then I have books, and flowers and birds ‒ I am never really lonely.
~Marie Corelli

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
~B R Ambedkar

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.
~Robert Brault

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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

Health consists with temperance alone.
~Alexander Pope

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
~Philip Zimbardo

In Turkey, you’re not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.
~Mehmet Oz

Leave the atom alone.
~E Y Harburg

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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
~Oliver Goldsmith

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don’t believe it exists. I’ve felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.
~Thor Heyerdahl

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
~Ethan A Hitchcock

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
~Christian Lous Lange

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone.
Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
~William Alexander

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
~John Muir

§ The Exercise:

immaculate

alone is to lonely
as feast to a famine
as flying to digging
as love is to losing
yet lay together betimes
and sometimes a miracle
conceived, new worth
spirit bred, holy birth
swaddled work of art

imagine #20

the sheer physicality
of alone
as a human,
being stranded
isolated
from others
of the same kind
a world absent those
of like-mind
alien in a foreign place
caged against contact
until death

buried memory file

Christmas creche
curious child
a toddler
sees a world
exactly her size
tries to enter
to climb in
again
then again
carried away crying
hands yet reaching
her dream realized
receding

5s ‘n 7s

hilltop at midnight, alone
savor ecstasy, alone
ride epitome, alone
browse old memories, alone
deathbed confessions, alone

plump ol’ dawg, goofy old pal
laurel and hardy pooches
old age, both, neither one well
patient, just waitin’ to die
habit, their reason to live

old dog worries a raw bone
him gnawing, fate throwing some
set tragedy staged for one
regrets, missed chance, moment blown
both tried, waved bye, end alone

irate state of disunion
splinters off a log, alone
tender tinder, hungry flames
handy conflagration near
brief bright flash scorched log intact

alone with covid
fertile muse, fallow artist
starter of projects

forbidden wisdom
coined in silence, stamped in bronze
paid for, earned alone

stoic means alone
withstanding in solitude
hard life of a sponge

The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
~Cyrano de Bergerac

Testing oneself is best when done alone.
~Jimmy Carter

We must reserve a little back-shop, all our own, entirely free, wherein to establish our true liberty and principal retreat and solitude.
~Michel de Montaigne

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.
~Cheryl Strayed

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
~Audrey Hepburn

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
~Gertrude Jekyll

He is never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when he is alone.
~Cicero

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up.
~Pearl Buck

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere – it is a lonely place. It’s an isolated city in that respect because you’re driving to places alone listening to the radio.
~Jason Schwartzman

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
~Marshall McLuhan

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn’t have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.
~Dorothy Hamill

It’s an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.
~Joaquin Phoenix

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
~Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
~Salvador Dali

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
~David Hume

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
~Abdul Kalam

Being courageous in solitude, without witnesses, without the prize of a consent, alone in front of oneself, requires great courage and great strength
~Milan Kundera

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.
~Richard Yates

All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
~Blaise Pascal

I lie easy and relaxed in the gentle dark saying, Here am I, myself alone, my spirit free, mind alert, body free from pain, or at least having no more pain than I am able to bear… Here am I, I whisper in the dark.
~Cid Ricketts Sumner