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“It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.”

Important Actors Support Impossible Being Alone

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Pain is never permanent.”

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Author:Teresa of Avila

“I wear perfume even when I’m alone”

Scent Perfume Elegance Being Alone

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.”

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Author:Whitney Houston

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.”

“I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.”

World Humans Different Comedy Regard Sci Fi Being Alone Being Single Anti Valentine Anti Valentines Day Funny Anti Valentines Day

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.”

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Author:Yousuf Karsh

“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”

Needs Loneliness Fine Solitude Lonely Being Alone Loner Loneliness And Solitude

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.”

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Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.”

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Author:Shirley MacLaine

“It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.”

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Author:Bruce Barton

“Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.”

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Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.”

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Author:Sienna Miller

“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.”

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Book:Marilyn Monroe in her own words

Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words

“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”

Love Life Needs Enough Feelings Loneliness Sexy Feel Good Thrive Valentine's Day Not Alone Being Alone Feeling Lonely Feeling Alone Wise Girl Behind A Smile

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“I restore myself when I'm alone.”

Love Life Inspirational Inspiring Solitude Introvert Being Alone Loving Life

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“A career is born in public - talent in privacy.”

Born Acting Careers Creativity Talent Privacy Being Alone Film Actors

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”

Mind Pain Literature Grief Behinds Beauty Loneliness Shadow Lonely Fleeting Being Alone Visitors Feeling Lonely Souvenirs

Author:Christopher Morley

“You only grow when you are alone.”

Wisdom Grows Growth Solitude Improvement Being Alone Feeling Lonely Loneliness And Solitude

Author:Paul Newman

“Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.”

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Author:Martha Beck

“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”

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Author:Eugene O'Neill

“Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.”

Knows Way Feels Sadness Lonely Tonight Being Alone Being Lonely Lonely And Alone Like Being Alone Alone Life I Feel Lonely

Book:The Authorized Roy Orbison: The Authorized Biography

Source: The Authorized Roy Orbison: The Authorized Biography

“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.”

People Together Used Literature Scared Hated Telephones Being Alone

Book:Survivor: A Novel

Source: Survivor: A Novel

“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.”

Character Scene Boring Being Alone

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.”

Ends Reason Feelings Letting Go Surrender Reasoning Being Alone Feeling Lost

Book:Pensées

Source: Pensées

“Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.”

Change Growing Painful Multitudes Break Up Being Alone Old Friends Growing Older Let Down Distasteful

Book:The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed

Source: The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed

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

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Author:Octavio Paz

“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”

Source: The Select Works of William Penn....

“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”

Men World Left Space Air Loneliness Planets Cold Disappear Awful Being Alone Outside World Space Between Lost Friendship

Book:Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

“If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.”

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Author:Jules Renard

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”

Knows Want Secret Loneliness Solitude Being Alone Secretive

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.”

Reason Difficult Solitude Solitary Being Alone

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“To be adult is to be alone.”

Time Loneliness Adults Adulthood Being Alone

Author:Jean Rostand

“Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.”

Want I Can Going Away Being Alone All Alone Wants To Be Alone

Author:Arnold Rothstein

“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”

Source: Marriage and Morals

“Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.”

Lonely Being Alone Being Lonely Feeling Alone Lonely And Alone Like Being Alone

Author:Mortimer Adler

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

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Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.”

Men Long Solitude Being Alone Alone Man

Book:Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

“I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.”

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Author:Jason Schwartzman

“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.”

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Author:Gene Simmons

“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”

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Author:Laurence Sterne

“You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.”

Writing Stories Loneliness Experts Being Alone

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”