I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
— Frida Kahlo
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
God by His Spirit must change the hearts of the people, if they are to walk in His ways, and keep His ordinances and statutes. The Spirit of the Lord alone works the true, spiritual, and moral life.
—Herman Bavinck
The more a person lives for others, the freer and more joyful is his life. The more he lives for himself alone, the more his life is constricted and painful.
—Leo Tolstoy
My learning does not help me now; neither does my Dogmatics; faith alone saves me.
—Herman Bavinck
It is the Spirit of God alone who can make a person inwardly certain of the truth of divine revelation.
—Herman Bavinck
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
—Henry David Thoreau
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
—Henry David Thoreau
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
“We must have the Word of the Lord.
With this Word alone we can withstand the devil.”
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
I have great respect for a man who can stand up for what he believes is right against all the world. He who can stand alone is a hero.
—D. L. Moody
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
—Voltaire
Trust them; leave them alone.
—Laozi
I alone seemed in thy world erroneous to dissent from all: my sect thou seest, now learn too late how few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
—John Milton
Reason alone does not suffice.
—Carl Jung
The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; only the sculptor’s hand can break the spell to free the figures.
—Michelangelo
Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.
—John Milton
This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
—Carl Jung
This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
—Carl Jung
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, while pain and guilt still linger here below, blindness and numbness–these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
—Michelangelo
believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
—Thomas Edison
The law of God exact he shall fulfill Both by obedience and by love, though love Alone fulfil the law: thy punishment He shall endure by coming in the flesh To a reproachful life and cursed death
—John Milton
“I would earnestly urge all Christian workers to be sure to get some time alone for the prayerful study of the Word. The more of such time that you can get, the better will it be both for yourself and for others.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“There are some of us who are called to spend our whole lives in our Master’s service; and unless we are often alone with him, listening to the message he has for us to deliver, our streams will not continue to run.”
– Charles Spurgeon