Alone quotes

Arnold Matthew 1822-1888

„Isolation.To Marguerite"

This truth-to prove,and make thine own:
„Thou hast been,shalt be,art,alone".

Bruyere Jean de la 1645-1696

Les Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle

The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness
experienced at being alone together.

Conrad Joseph 1857-1924

Heart of Darkness

We live,as we dream-alone.

Eliot T.S. 1888-1965

The Cocktail Party

What is hell?
Hell is oneself,
Hell is alone,the other figures in it
Merely projections.There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to.One is always alone.

Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone,it will let you alone.

Gibbon Edward 1737-1794

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Henry O. 1862-191

Memoirs of a Yellow Dog

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone,they'd never marry.

James Henry 1843-1916

„The Given Case"

Women never dine alone.When they dine alone  they don't dine.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Boswell-Life

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he  advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in  constant repair.

Joplin Janis 1943-1970

On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone.

Kilvert Francis 1840-1879

Diary

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone.
A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

Kingsley Charles 1819-1875

„The Sands of Dee"

„O Mary,go and call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
Across the sands of Dee."
The western wind was wild and dank with foam,
And all alone went she.

Kipling Rudyard 1865

The Story of the Gadsbys

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Lawrence D.H. 1885-1930

„Leave Sex Alone"

...While we think of it,and talk of it
Let us leave it alone,physically,keep apart.
For while we have sex in the mind,we truly have
none in the body.

Lovelace Richard 1618-1658

„To Lucasta,Going Beyond the Seas"

If to be absent were to be
Away from thee;
Or that when I am gone,
You or I were alone;
Then my Lucasta might I crave
Pity from blust'ring wind,or swallowing wave.

MacDonald George 1824-1905

It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

MacPhail Agnes 1890-1954

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear.We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Mikes George 1912-1987

How to be an Alien

An Englishman,even if he is alone,forms an orderly queue of one.

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost

But wherefore thou alone?Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose?

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost

In solitude
What happiness?who can enjoy alone,
Or all enjoying,what contentment find?

Nicholson William

Shadowlands

We read to know we are not alone.

Pascal Blaise 1623-1662

Pensées

On mourra seul.
We shall die alone.

Paz Octavio

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.
Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Powell Laurence Clark

Writing is a solitary occupation.Family,friends and society are the natural enemies of a writer.
He must be alone,uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Rogers Samuel 1763-1855

„Human Life"

Then,never less alone than when alone,
Those whom he loved so long and sees no more,
Loved and still loves-not dead-but gone before,
He gathers round him.

Rosebery Lord 1847-1929

(on remaining outside Liberal Party leadership)

I must plough my furrow alone.

Scipio Africanus 236-184 BC

Never less idle than when unoccupied , nor less alone than when without company.

Tillich Paul 1886-1965

Language has created the word „loneliness" to express the  pain of being alone,and the word „solitude" to express the glory
of being alone.

Valéry Paul 1871-1945

Tel Quel 1 „Moralités"

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

Vaughan Henry 1622-1695

Silex Scintillans „They are all gone"

They are all gone into the world of light,
And I alone sit lingering here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear.

White E.B. 1899-1985

I liked to sail alone.The sea was the same as a girl to me-I did not want anyone else along.

Wolfe Charles 1791-1823

„The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna"
We carved not a line,and we raised not a stone
But we left him alone with his glory.

Wordsworth William 1770-1850

National Independence and Liberty „November 1806"

Another year!-another deadly blow!
Another mighty empire overthrown!
And we are left,or shall be left,alone.

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