Alone quotes, dictionary of quotations
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.