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" We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. "

Tennessee Williams

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" All we ask is to be let alone. "

Jefferson Davis

" Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. "

" In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief. "

" We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. "

Tennessee Williams

" Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless. Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets. "

George Washington Carver

" 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

" 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

" The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. "

" When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together. "

" I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. "

Tennessee Williams

" My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God. "

Charles Spurgeon

" There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. "

" I don't think there is life beyond death. I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn't do. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible. "

" I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. I'm sorry. "

" Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. "

P. G. Wodehouse

" In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a 'should' involved, and this cannot be worked out from, 'If I do this, what will happen?' alone. "

Richard P. Feynman

" The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them. "

" The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. "

Douglas Coupland

" Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. "

" Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. "

" When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone. "

" Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. "

" You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others. "

" My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom. "

Yves Saint Laurent

" When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument. "

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

" The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. "

Tennessee Williams