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" Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. "

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" I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly. "

" We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing. "

Charles Bukowski

" The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. "

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" The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. "

" 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. "

" I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone. "

" I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. "

" 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. "

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" I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. "

" There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing. "

" You know how when you're alone with your cat, your cat is kind of silly and goofy and kind of crazy? And as soon as people come over, your cat is like someone you've never met before? You know, poised. That's sort of what it's like working with Jennifer Lopez. "

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" No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild. "

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" It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! "

" Wisdom comes alone through suffering. "

" I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.' "

" I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone. "

" 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. "

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" A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. "

" There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing. "

" I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom. "

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" It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far. "

" I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone. "

" Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. "

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" Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside. "

" For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe. "

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" Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone. "

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" I restore myself when I'm alone. "