A Quotes
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“Alone was a dangerous status in Horror Zone.”
Source: Don't Date the Haunted
“Alone wasn’t just a closed dark room anymore but a whole wide world full of opportunities. I needed to explore and occupy the vastness of the world inside of me, which until now I hadn’t truly understood.”
Source: Table for One
“Alone.
We all are.
Never not are.
Be grateful that we have been not realizing it.”
“Alone we are born
And die alone;
Yet see the red-gold cirrus
Over snow-mountain shine.”
“Alone we are savages, together we are civilization”
“Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.”
“Alone we come and alone we leave. Verily! Love and care is just a pretence.”
“alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.”
“Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.”
Source: Bitterblue
“Alone with my wine and my misery, I was convinced that life was composed of a string of “if only’s” leading from one self-inflicted bungle to the next until at some point, one’s final iteration of the excuse became one’s final utterance, and one expired.”
Source: The Other Alexander
“Alone with our madness and favorite flower
We see that there really is nothing left to write about.
Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things
In the same way, repeating the same things over and over
For love to continue and be gradually different.”
Source: Selected poems
“Alone within the vast tribunal that is the stormy sky, the pilot is in contention for his mailbags with three elemental divinities: mountain, sea and storm.”
Source: Wind, Sand and Stars
“Alone! yesterday, today and forever.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“Alone you can become exceptional; together you can become unstoppable."
- Crookhaven: The school for thieves”
Source: The School for Thieves
“Alone you can do great things. But together, you can truly expand upon that.”
“Alone you’re a single drop; together, we can form a mighty ocean.”
“Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.”
“Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!”
Source: The Manor House: The Hand in the Dark and Other Poems
“Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!”
“alone, adj. In bad company.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged
“Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.”
Source: The Complete Poetry
“Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.”
Source: For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio
“Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony”
“Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.”
“Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.”
Source: The First Confessor: Sword of Truth: The Prequel
“Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.”
Source: The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL
“Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.”
“Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we come together to make it work.”
Source: The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
“Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.”
“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”
Source: The Waves
“Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.”
“Alone, no one wins freedom.”
Source: The Tombs of Atuan
“Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen.”
“Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)”
“Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.”
Source: The Works of Wells
“Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.”
“Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone--the pleasure is in the exchange.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 1-6
“Alone. The saddest word in the world.”
Source: Jay's Journal
“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
Source: 'Salem's Lot
“Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.”
Source: Charming the Prince
“Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise?”
“Aloneness allows time for deliberating and intellectual studies, but ultimately every person must share their knowledge of life if they want to remain a vibrant memory after their death.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Aloneness and all-oneness is our authentic nature. We are always alone and all-one. We came into this planet alone and all-one. We will leave alone and all-one. And also during our whole staying in this world, no matter how we engage in relationships, we continue to be alone and all-one, though we may forget about it or pretend it is not the case.
True love has nothing to do with the idea that someone is the other half of my soul and that I need him or her in order to be whole and feel complete. Only when we can be alone and all-one with someone there is true love, regardless of whether that someone is still with us or not.
And yet... I miss you...”
“Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity for the fulfiling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God and with other believers.”
Source: Daily in Christ