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Alone Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among…
- We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.
- At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity:…
- It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way in I can…
- Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in…
- To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built…
- I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.
- I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
- It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before…
- [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or…
- It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight,…
- Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you.…
- Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you…
- O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and…
- Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of…
- I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my…
- You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is why: I hear…
- Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and…
- I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough
- But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now prepare and build with his hands, that err less. Therefore,…
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