A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
— Olga Kurylenko
No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.
— Octavio Paz
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
— Octavia E. Butler
I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.
— Novak Djokovic
The trouble is that the average trader on Wall Street, he or she is so young, he doesn't even remember the recession of 2001, let alone the previous one.
— Nouriel Roubini
Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was virtually impossible.
— Norman Davies
If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
— Noam Chomsky
Free trade agreements are never for one sector alone.
— Nirmala Sitharaman
To film with our family is awesome - you have to hang out with each other, and I love that because I hate being alone.
— Nikki Bella
It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness.
— Nicolle Wallace
I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.
— Nicole Kidman
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.
— Nicolas Malebranche
I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
— Nicolas Cage
I don't mind staying in one place for a while - I like to spend a lot of time in Los Angeles. It's a place where nobody goes out, where people will leave you alone. People in Los Angeles love themselves and they love what they do and they leave you alone. If you're isolated, you have a real advantage. You can work.
— Nicolas Berggruen
When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.
— Nick Kroll
I would never go travelling on my own. Some people like to go backpacking alone, but there's no way I would do that, even if you paid me - I just don't see the point. If I discover something beautiful, for me it's very important to be able to share it with someone and not just see it for myself.
If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.
— Olafur Eliasson
Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.
We all fail, and we all have weaknesses. I think that's what helps us relate to characters we see on TV or read in books, is that we recognize our frailties within them and maybe don't feel so alone. We get to learn from their mistakes.
— O. T. Fagbenle
It's always easier if you have the support of your family, if you're not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together.
Knowing that you're not alone really does make all the difference in the world.
— Normani Kordei
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
— Norman Cousins
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
Then when I was writing alone, I'd just be in my bedroom in London and I had a little studio setup. I was like, You know what, if no one's gonna produce my music, I'm gonna have to learn how to do it myself.
— Nina Nesbitt
I don’t think people take enough time to themselves or like to be alone anymore, but it’s really important.
— Nikita Dragun
As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.
— Nicole Richie
I think we go through the world feeling alone and singular, and you forget that your one story is probably the same as millions of people's stories. Maybe with different specifics. But a lot of people experience the same things.
— Nicole Byer
All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.
I think I jump around more when I'm alone.
I did take a huge leap moving countries. People have no idea how huge it is to relocate overseas. Finding your new life alone is enormous, and then starting a new career in Hollywood is so big.
— Nicky Whelan
Discovering traces of life on Mars would be of tremendous scientific significance: The first time that any signs of extraterrestrial life had ever been detected. Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we're not entirely alone in this vast, cold cosmos.
— Nick Bostrom
I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
It was honestly like 'Annie.' One day I was alone in a cold, dark Eastern European orphanage, and then the next day I was in an enchanted, mystical land known as Walmart.
— Oksana Masters
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
I'm very happy alone.
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
— O. Henry
The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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
Being an actress does not mean that each thing that happens in my life has to be news or meant to be shared with others. Acting is a profession, and once I leave the sets, I want to be left alone.
— Nithya Menen
Just sharing things that are either embarrassing or possibly relatable, searching for that laugh so that someone makes me feel less alone. Like, 'Oh, they laughed, so they get what I'm saying.
— Nikki Glaser
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
— Nigel Farage
To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.
— Nicole Krauss
Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.
— Nicole Ari Parker
I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that.
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.
— Nick Nolte
