Quotations About / On: ALONE

  • 41.
    For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.
    (Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president. "A Summary View of the Rights of British America..." (1774). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 1, p. 122, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950).)
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  • 42.
    We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
    (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian author, playwright. Letter, December 23, 1888, to his editor and friend, A.S. Suvorin. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 3, p. 99, "Nauka" (1976).)
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  • 43.
    We lunched and dined in crowded restaurants. We were always alone.
    (Muriel Box (b. 1905), British screenwriter, and Sydney Box (1907-1983), British screenwriter. Franceska (Ann Todd), The Seventh Veil, speaking of her relationship with Nicholas (1945).)
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  • 44.
    The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone.
    (Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter. Zab (Robert Carradine), The Big Red One (1980).)
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  • 45.
    On mourra seul. We shall die alone.
    (Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, mathematician. Pensées, iii. 211, ed. L. Brunschvieg, 5th edition (1909).)
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  • 46.
    Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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  • 47.
    Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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  • 48.
    There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
    (Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Anglo-Irish novelist. The House in Paris, pt. 1, ch. 2 (1935).)
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  • 49.
    True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
    (Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), German philosopher, sociologist, music critic. Minima Moralia, pt. 3, sct. 122, "Monograms," (1951), trans. by G.F.N. Jephcott (1978).)
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  • 50.
    [T]he temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.
    (James Madison (1751-1836), U.S. president. Madison to Jefferson, February 24, 1826. Madison Papers, Library of Congress. Speaking of universities.)
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