As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
—Carl Jung
“We do not want to go to heaven alone; we are most anxious to lead others to the Saviour.”
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
Only delusions and lies require artificial support. Truth can stand alone. Therefore the true word has no need of superficial, solemn ceremonies. Only lies need such devices.
—Leo Tolstoy
God alone is the Author of life; and if you are to be born again, it must be God’s work. You cannot save yourself.
—D. L. Moody
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
—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 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
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 think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
—Thomas Jefferson
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
—Blaise Pascal
When I am ….. completely myself, entirely alone… or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.
—Miyamoto Musashi
To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Never believe that others can show you the way to a good life and that you can’t find it yourself. Pay attention to the inner voice of your reason alone and not to the orders and suggestions of others.
—Leo Tolstoy
I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind.
—Seneca
She was stronger alone.
– Jane Austen
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
—Plato
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
—Charlie Chaplin
Is it misery to love God? To give Him my heart who alone is worthy of it? Nay, it is the truest happiness; indeed, the only true happiness which is to be found under the sun.
—John Wesley
Not for ourselves alone are we born.
—Cicero
God, and God alone, is man’s highest good.
—Herman Bavinck
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
—Isaac Newton
One can pray while walking the street, or riding in the car, and one should lift the heart to God right in the busiest moments of life, but we need set set times of prayer, times when we go alone with God, shut the door and talk to our Father in the secret place.
—R. A. Torrey
It is not enough that we have our times of secret prayer to God alone with Him, we also need to have fellowship with others in prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
In theology, Calvin stands alone, shining like a bright fixed star, while other leaders and teachers can only circle round him ~ Spurgeon
Stop in the midst of the bustle and hurry and temptation of the day for thanksgiving and prayer. A few minutes spent alone with God at midday will go far to keep you calm in the midst of the worries and anxieties of modern life.
—R. A. Torrey
Put your trust in nothing of man, but in God alone!
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones