“Very well, alone.”
Evening Standard, June 18, 1940. <br class="br">Published after the German capture of Paris, this shows a soldier on the British coast shaking his fist at approaching bombers. http://www.johndclare.net/images/wwii1.alone.jpg
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L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology
A New Slant on Life (1998).
“Leave well — even 'pretty well' — alone: that is what I learn as I get old.”
Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English poet and writer
As quoted in Fitzgerald to His Friends: Selected Letters of Edward FitzGerald (1979) edited by Alethea Hayter, p. 178.
“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Source: Western Star
“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”
Isaac Asimov book Foundation
Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 3
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“The message well I hear, my faith alone is weak”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Faust
Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube
Faust's Study
Faust, Part 1 (1808)
“We learn about life not from pluses alone, but from minuses as well.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 23, 1888)
Letters
“He that alone would wise and mighty be,
Commands that others love as well as he.”
Edmund Waller (1606–1687) English poet and politician
Canto III.
Of Divine Love (c. 1686)
Context: He that alone would wise and mighty be,
Commands that others love as well as he.
Love as he lov'd! — How can we soar so high?—
He can add wings when he commands to fly.
Nor should we be with this command dismay'd;
He that examples gives will give his aid:
For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,
His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.
Stevie Wonder (1950) American musician
Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)
Song lyrics, Music of My Mind (1972)
“What I learned
The well-documented difference
Between alone and lonely
The comfort of knowing”
David Levithan The Realm of Possibility
Source: The Realm of Possibility