“Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.”
Solitude is not the same as loneliness, though they often get confused. This collection explores both — the ache of isolation and the quiet power of being comfortable in your own company. Some of these quotes will make you want to reach out to someone; others will make you want to sit with yourself a while longer.
“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”
“Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.”
“Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.”
“Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.”
“There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.”
“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.”
“Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.”
“A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.”
“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”
“Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
“To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.”
“It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.”
“When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.”
“You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.”
“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.”
“To be adult is to be alone.”