“Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.”

“People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”

Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter

“The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”

Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter

“Virtue (or the man of virtue) is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

“Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?”

Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist

“She beckoned to him, shining and silver, and he knew he must go: unafraid, not hesitating, he paused only at the garden's edge, as though he'd forgotten something, he stopped and looked back at the bloomless, descending blue, at the boy he had left behind.”

Truman Capote book Other Voices, Other Rooms

“Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

“One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.”

Agatha Christie And Then There Were None