The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?
— Alex Chilton
When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
It's always been very important for me to be surrounded by people. It's never been enough for me to be successful alone. I want to be around people my own age who are also doing things I can learn from.
— Alden Ehrenreich
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
— Albert Einstein
I'll be in, like, Starbucks or something and I'll say my order and someone will snap their head around and go, 'Whaat, Alaska?! Hieeee!' I find it nice because I can be alone in a strange city where I don't know where I am, and then if a fan runs into me I feel like I am among friends and family.
— Alaska
I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer. I have had to pull it out a few times when I have heard noises at night, but I've never had to use it.
— Alana Stewart
I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won't feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.
I like to say I sit alone in my room, and I fight the language. I am wildly obsessive. I can't let something go if I think it's wrong.
— Alan Furst
I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance - a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think.
— Alain de Botton
I said, 'I'm a rock star. I can't preach in nobody's church. Are you crazy?' Let alone buy one. Oh, I wound up buying one.
— Al Green
I would often draw in my sleep. That alone made for twice the work... I couldn't use the weird stuff I drew while dozing off, so I'd end up having to draw it all over again.
— Akira Toriyama
I am bipolar, and I am proud. And that is why I wanted to write a book. To shine a light on mental illness, to be vulnerable about the days I let it take control and paid dearly for it, and to tell anyone fighting a similar battle: You are not alone. You are not broken.
— AJ Lee
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
— Aeschylus
Mostly I sit alone in a room and cry and do my job - so when they let me out of my cave to go on tour, I really listen to my readers.
— Adriana Trigiani
There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, or nigban, is an evil - a fearful evil. A happy future existence is alone good.
— Adoniram Judson
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
— Adlai Stevenson I
To diagnose and treat a brain disorder accurately, it would be necessary to look at the brain directly. Looking at behavior alone can miss a vital piece of the puzzle and provide an incomplete, or even a misleading, picture of the child's problems.
— Aditi Shankardass
I felt so alone as a boy because no one wanted to be friends with me.
This country is not built on one culture alone. We all make up this industry.
— Aldis Hodge
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
— Alberto Giacometti
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
— Albert Camus
I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.
— Alanis Morissette
At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
Human beings have long wondered whether they are alone in the universe.
— Alan Stern
I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.
— Alain Robert
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
— Al Stewart
Before I knew it, I was singing, 'I'm so tired of being alone,' and that's Al right there. From then, my attitude was, 'Let Otis be Otis and James be James. I'm not going to emulate them anymore.'
Inside me, 'Dragon Ball' became a thing of the past, but later, I got upset at the live-action film, revised the script for the anime film, and complained about the quality of the TV anime. I guess, at some point, it became a work that I like so much that I can't leave it alone.
I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn't say I'm sceptical because that word implies the truth is out there when there is no truth out there.
— Aidan Turner
When you talk, you realize that the pains and worries you feel are universal; you no longer feel alone in your sadness. You relate and find comfort in the fact that there are other women going through the same things as you are.
— Adwoa Aboah
I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.
— Adriana Lima
I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
— Adam Mansbach
I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.
I feel Noah has been alone for the majority of his life and inherently searching for a family, even though he may not express that outwardly. But his encounter with Rosalee gave him hope in finding someone who thinks like him.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
— Albert Pike
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.
Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.
— Alan Moore
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.
The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
— Al Lopez
I can be in a beautiful, loving and caring relationship, but it can't be 24x7 and 30 days a month. At the end of the day, I need my time alone.
— Akshaye Khanna
Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.
— Akhenaton
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
— Agnes Macphail
I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.
— Adrienne Bailon
You can't scale if you do it alone, you really need to work with others.
— Adrian Grenier
While artistes do want peace, it is not their preserve alone. Everyone wants peace just as much.
— Adnan Sami
I like training alone. Otherwise, I find I get too dependent on someone else for motivation.
— Aditya Roy Kapur
