The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for pain that he sobbed; it was because he was all alone, because he had been driven out, alone, into this skeleton world of rocks and moonlight.
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The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.
It is natural to believe in God when you’re alone – quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
Trudging alone along that black road, sometimes in the teeth of wind and rain, and watching the white distant gleam of convolvulus through the park railings, gave me an exhilarating sensation of adventure.
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Because,’ Cormery went on, ‘when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone … you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.
I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.
Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the household of millions upon millions.
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Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.