Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'To MargueriteöContinued', l.1^4.

This truthöto prove, and make thine own: 'Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.'

-Arnold, Matthew
  'Isolation. To Marguerite', l.29-30.

   There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'September1,1939'.

Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'The Novelist'.

Never to be bored, never to be frustrated, never to be alone.

-Ball, GeorgeWildman
Defining what  John F Kennedy wanted from the presidency. President Kennedy (1993).

Apre'  s le rare bonheur de trouver une compagne qui nous soit bien assortie, l'e¤  tat le moins malheureux de la vie est sans doute de vivre seul. After the rare happiness of finding a companion with whom we are well matched, the least unpleasant state of life is without doubt to live alone.

-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre,Jacques-Henri
  Paul et Virginie.

And theL Godsaid,It isnot good thatthemanshould be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDGenesis 2:18.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 4:9^10.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 2, stanza 98.

All we ask is to be let alone.

-Davis,Jefferson
Inaugural address,18 Feb.

What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to.One is always alone.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Cocktail Party, act1, sc.3.

I want to be alone.

-Garbo, Greta pseudonym of  Greta Lovisa Gustafsson
   The media have famously attributed these words to Garbo although she always denied she said them. In the film Grand Hotel (1932) Grusinskaya (playedby Garbo) says'I want to be left alone'.

Ach da ich irrte, hatt' ich viel Gespielen, Da ich dich kenne, bin ich fast allein. Ah! while I erred I had many friends. Now that I know you, I am alone.

-Goethe,JohannWolfgang von
Gedichte, Zuneigung (published1910).

Self-respect†comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments in quiet places when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the

-Griswold, Alfred Whitney
Soviet  politician,  notorious  for  his   austere  and  humourless demeanour.   As   Foreign   Minister   (1957^85)   he   influenced Soviet relations with theWest during the ColdWar. President in 1985, he was replaced by Gorbachev.

As you walk through the storm, Hold your head up high, And don't be afraid of the dark, At the end of the storm, Is a golden sky, And the sweet silver song of the lark, Walk on through the wind, Walk on through the rain, Though your dreams be tossed and blown. Walk on, walk on, With hope in your hearts, And you'll never walk alone, You'll never walk alone.

-Hammerstein, Oscar, II
  Carousel,'You'll NeverWalk Alone' (music by Richard Rodgers). The song was subsequently released in a pop version by Gerry and the Pacemakers in1963 and adopted as a club song by Liverpool football club.

'A man†ain't got no hasn't got any can't really isn't any way out† One man alone ain't got†no chance.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Harry Morgan's dying words. To Have and Have Not.

The stroke of midnight ceases, And I lie down alone.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  More Poems, no.11.

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

Er l a« chelte und sagte: 'Von mir willst du denWeg erfahren?' 'Ja,'sagte ich,'da ich ihn selbst nich finden kann.' 'Gibs auf, gibs auf,'sagte er und wandte sich mit einem groÞen Schwunge ab, so wie Leute, die mit ihrem Lachen allein sein wollen. Hesmiled and said: 'Youasking metheway?' 'Yes,'Isaid, 'since I cannot find it myself.' 'Give it up! Give it up!'said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, like someone who wants to be alone with his laughter.

-Kafka, Franz
'Gibs  Auf!', collected in Nahum N Glatzer (ed)  The Complete Stories (1971).

Oh what can ail thee, knight at arms, Alone and palely loitering; The sedge has wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing.

-Keats,John
  'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', stanza1.