Ally Carter Quotes

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

We live as we dream - alone.

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

We must relearn to be alone.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.

When I'm all alone, nobody else can say goodbye.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.