Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. 686
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. 2.48K
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‘There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.’ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest. 625
Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either. 1.11K
I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women. 618
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. 650
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. 793
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. 688
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. 612
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. 741
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. 2.44K
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. 620
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. 681
A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself. 688
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. 762
