I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
Bell Hooks

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
James Baldwin

This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
David Foster Wallace

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
Toni Morrison

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Mortimer Adler

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

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
John Updike

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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

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

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
Ovid

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
Dag Hammarskjold

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

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

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

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Louis Aragon

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

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.
Keanu Reeves

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
Bruce Barton