If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy
Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable. Barbara Boxer
I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared. Lena Headey
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. Jeanette Winterson
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. Janis Joplin
I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman. Claire Danes
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. Martin Scorsese
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. Mary Baker Eddy
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. Slavoj Zizek
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow? Jackie Kennedy
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. Johnny Cash
I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation. David Cameron
Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it. Shia LaBeouf
If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone. Tori Amos
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. Ashley Montagu
And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone. John Irving
You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life. Elizabeth Edwards
Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. Emily Carr