Top 1200 Alone Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man; that man alone of all the creatures, has "found out many inventions", the chief of which appears to be the art of making himself miserable, and of seeing all Nature stained with that dark and hateful colour.

I remember the horror story that I told myself over and over again. I'm totally alone in my body. I'm totally alone in my head and nobody will ever see through my eyes. I'm just completely alone.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, standing apart from the rest. He looked out at the hoardes of singing, laughing people and felt more alone than he'd ever felt in his life. Was this how it was going to be then? Was this who he was? A man apart from his fellows, making the journey through life alone?

Analytical clarity is the result of hard, syllogistic thinking, and that thinking has to be done alone. It's not just being physically alone but also alone with your thoughts - not looking at your phone, not hearing the buzz of an incoming text message or email.

Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.

The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world.

Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,--good-by,--fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

I feel better when I am not around people. When I am alone, alone, alone.

In the present age, man proves his separation from his Creator by his spirit of self-sufficienc y and positive rejection of God. The present issue between God and man is one of whether man will accept God's estimate of him, abandon his hopeless self-struggle, and cast himself only on God who alone is sufficient to accomplish his needed transformation.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

I have lived alone, I have fought alone, I have dealt with the pain alone. I will die alone. I think when I'm going to leave. I don’t want to be seen and I don’t want to be followed , I want to disappear quickly and quietly and without any drama , I want as much time in the darkness as I can possibly have . The darkness provides cover, the darkness provides places to hide and the darkness provides comfort.

I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.’ Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely.

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.

Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.

Our hope will never be found in the efforts of man, but in Jesus Christ alone.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

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

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.

When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?

Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.