We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming and developing it - but primarily it embodies Comrade Mao's thinking. Nevertheless, victory made him less prudent, so that in his later years some unsound features and unsound ideas, chiefly "Left" ones, began to emerge. In quite a number of instances he went counter to his own ideas, counter to the fine and correct propositions he had previously put forward, and counter to the style of work he himself had advocated.
But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.
When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.
The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
Successful crimes alone are justified.
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.
There`s no joy to be had seeing any black man, any black man taking a perp walk, let alone some of whom meant so much to us for so long.
I don't know myself, what to do, where to go. . . I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort. . . it's what the world offers. . . please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.
It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.
Tis Love alone can make our fetters please.
You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.
A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone.
Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.