#lone

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.' ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#anything #between #born #charlie #charlie sheen

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#alone #doubt #ended #kind #whatever

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#clear #forecast #implications #million #population

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

#am #collaborating #come #else #focused

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. ↗

— John Updike

#extent #government #i #i love #least

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#black #contained #ever #experience #father

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#curriculum #do you know #find #fit #group

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. ↗

— Paul Valery

#companion #created #feel #finding #gave

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#eternal #his #human #human being #individual

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found. ↗

— Claire Danes

#answer #found #greatest #i #loneliness