#lone

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. ↗

— Marie Antoinette

#away #blood #children #crown #deprived

Touring is really a pretty lonely business. ↗

— Eddy Arnold

#lonely #lonely business #pretty #really #touring

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear. ↗

— Meghna Pant

#despair #inspirational #loneliness #old-age #age

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. ↗

— Theodore Gericault

#brush #colour #imagination #merely #produces

Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own. ↗

— George Best

#being #enjoyed #i #loner #maybe

Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment. ↗

— Eva Braun

#arrive #coals #dr #every #expecting

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated. ↗

— John Bright

#ballot #called #care #constitutional #decide

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#being #born #handicap #i #key

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people. ↗

— Kate Bush

#because #choosing #dancing #devoting #going

In solitude, where we are least alone. ↗

— Lord Byron

#least #solitude #where