#alone

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone. ↗

— Jose Bergaman

#man #only #only time #thinks #time

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm. ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

#enough #ever #good #hearts #leave

If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up from the last stop, to continue in the same vein, a vein I had struck when I was a child and went down in the street for the first time alone and there frozen into the dirty ice of the gutter lay a dead cat, the first time I had looked at death and grasped it. From that moment I knew what it was to be isolated: every object, every living thing and every dead thing led its independent existence. My thoughts too led to an independent existence. ↗

— Henry Miller

#existence #life #nihilism #tropic-of-capricorn #change

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#even #get #grocery #grocery shopping #house

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#alone #beginning #freedoms #indeed #right

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits. ↗

— Rita Dove

#before #come #community #definition #eternity

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#establish #holy #holy spirit #link #neighbor

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. ↗

— Nicolas Boileau

#also #break #fools #full #himself

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark