Left Alone Quotes
218 quotes by 190 authors
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep…
— Samuel Johnson
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings…
— Grover Norquist
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In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always…
— Mehmet Oz
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Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's…
— Amy Poehler
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I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.
— Christina Ricci
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Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality…
— Mark Helprin
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It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.
— Ian Mcewan
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To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
— Anthony Burgess
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To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the…
— Anthony Trollope
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All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's…
— Orson Scott Card
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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
— Emily Bronte
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I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you,…
— Marcel Proust
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There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's…
— James St. James
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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.
— Maya Angelou
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If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she…
— Doris Lessing
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I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
— Libba Bray
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The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding…
— John Boyne
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I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was…
— Charles Bukowski
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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.…
— Maya Angelou
Who Wrote These Left Alone Quotes
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