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Alone Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
- A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
- Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
- The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
- Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't…
- People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone…
More Alone Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats… — Michelle Bachelet
- We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? — Anna Letitia Barbauld