“[...] And heart s frosty discipline Exact as a snowflake. But here–a burgeoning Unruly enough to pitch her five queenly wits Into vulgar motley– A treason not to be borne. Let idiots Reel giddy in bedlam spring: She withdrew neatly. And round her house she set Such a barricade of barb and check Against mutinous weather As no mere insurgent man could hope to break With curse, fist, threat Or love, either. – Spinster”
“Solitude was the friend of the smuggler, and was undoubtedly on good terms with the scout as well.”
“They continued across the seemingly endless sands, watering every grain with their sweat, anointing every granule with their strain. In the hourglass of time the sands continued to shift, and they couldn t find their way outside the glass. Their shadows struggled with them, hauling and heaving, dropping with them, and clambering up with them, and reminding them constantly that otherwise they were alone.”
“Jane Eyre. A strange child, difficult to love. A lonely, only child.”
“Earth is empty. And so am I.”
“I’ve learned that there’s a difference between being alone and being lonely.”
“I see you want us all to go. I don t know what you want to do. I want to be alone, said Isabel.”
“I m a survivor—a survivor of a general wreck . . . everyone else has gone . . . I m all that s left.”
“It hasn t gotten easier Tax. It never will. You said you wouldn t leave me. But here I am, all alone.”
“My life is a flat line, I go through the checkpoints everyday: wake up, run, eat breakfast, go to work until I can t keep my eyes open, go home. Rinse. Repeat. There is no color, no scent, no taste.”
“Fortune smiles on my love, I can breathe once more. Oh, you alone, my love, can console my heart - Rosina”
“i brought in alone with me”
“i brought an alone with me”
“Now that he was quite 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.”
“If you are feeling that the government is misleading you, you are not alone.”
“Solitude is not the only possible parent of boredom: we sometimes find ourselves bored to death while we are with someone, a few people, or even many people.”
“I still belonged to you long after you belonged to someone else.”