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The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron on alone

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad on alone

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Mason Cooley on alone

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Hermann Hesse on alone

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
Doug Coupland on alone

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Tecumseh on alone

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Jean de la Bruyere on alone

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton on alone

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
Robert M. Pirsig on alone

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Guru Nanak on alone

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
Tori Amos on alone

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.
Greta Garbo on alone

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Martin Heidegger on alone

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo on alone

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.
Sienna Miller on alone

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.
Gene Simmons on alone

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Charles Bukowski on alone

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Mortimer Adler on alone

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius on alone

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian on alone