„Isolation.To Marguerite"
This truth-to prove,and make thine own:
„Thou hast been,shalt be,art,alone".
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.
Heart of Darkness
We live,as we dream-alone.
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.
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone,it will let you alone.
I was never less alone than when by myself.
Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone,they'd never marry.
„The Given Case"
Women never dine alone.When they dine alone they don't dine.
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.
On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone.
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.
„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.
The Story of the Gadsbys
Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
„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.
„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.
It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear.We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
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?
Paradise Lost
In solitude
What happiness?who can enjoy alone,
Or all enjoying,what contentment find?
Shadowlands
We read to know we are not alone.
Pensées
On mourra seul.
We shall die alone.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.
Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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.
„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.
(on remaining outside Liberal Party leadership)
I must plough my furrow alone.
Never less idle than when unoccupied , nor less alone than when without company.
Language has created the word „loneliness" to express the pain of being alone,and the word „solitude" to express the glory
of being alone.
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.
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.
I liked to sail alone.The sea was the same as a girl to me-I did not want anyone else along.
„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.
National Independence and Liberty „November 1806"
Another year!-another deadly blow!
Another mighty empire overthrown!
And we are left,or shall be left,alone.
