We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone. No algebra of the mind can calculate it, no alchemy of premonition divine it, and it can seldom perceive itself.
Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
People rarely die from heroin alone, it's the combination that's deadly. Maybe we should blast that out as a public health education message. That way at least we're keeping people safe.
Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.
Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.
One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.
Here, take this, she would say, take this, and tell me where he is. Tell me whether he's dead or alive, so I can walk as his widow or his wife. No one would, or could, tell her, and so she continued to cook, and to learn new things all the while searching for an answer among the outcasts. The way he carried his body, the way he walked in my life, Tatiana thought, declared that he was the only man I had ever loved, and he knew it. And until I was alone without him, I thought it was all worth it.
There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.
He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself.
With all my heart, and all my soul, I will love you till the winds don't blow. Until the oceans turn to stone, my love is yours and yours alone. My love is forever, until forever's gone.
Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.
You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.
When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.
I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.
You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.