Alone...
“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.”
--T. S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party“There was a light in his eyes as though of intense feeling. Perhaps there were even thought and intelligence, but at the same time there was a gleam of something like madness.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment“He is the Cat who walks by Himself, and all places are alike to him.”
-- Rudyard Kipling, The Cat who walks by Himself"I'm afraid of the dark and suspicious of the light."
-- Woody Allen“One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.”
- Vincent Van Gogh"Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside us."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes“We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And some people still wonder why some are afraid when they are told they are loved.”
--Unknown.“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
--Napoleon“It was a long time before she could get to sleep. She kept thinking that no one could understand all the things she understood, and all that was in her.”
--Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace“’It is a little lonely in the desert…’
‘It is also lonely among men,’ the snake said.”
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The Little Prince“The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads—none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of—unconditional love, unconditional attention… In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at then end of life…You need others to survive, right?… But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.”
--Schwarz“Hell is other people.”
--Sartre, No Exit“I am free of predjudices. I hate everyone equally.”
–W.C. Fields“Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace…On much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.”
--Akhenaton“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”
–H.L. Menken