#alone

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#crying #dope #end #feel #how

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#also #basis #candidate #chosen #correct

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#californians #concept #doom #invented #their

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

Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops. ↗

— John Blair

#acts #alone #black #block #commented

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

I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21. ↗

— Monica Keena

#always #bars #believes #carded #get

But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#anyone #ask #awards #ball #could

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. ↗

— Boethius

#content #go #heaven #man #never

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