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" Solitude is un-American. "

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" The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. "

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

" I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life. "

" From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men. "

" Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. "

" Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important. "

" Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. "

" Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter. "

James A. Garfield

" I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not her. "

" Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women. "

" The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone. "

" The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it. "

Stephen Hawking

" I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. "

" When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words. "

Alejandro Jodorowsky

" A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing. "

" Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment. "

" My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table. "

" No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone. "

" In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. "

" I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie. "

" If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. "

Richard Lovelace

" A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it. "

" Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone. "

" Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case. "

" It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet. "

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

" A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself. "

" Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. "

" We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone. "