Being alone Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

— Pliny the Elder

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

— Jean de la Bruyere

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

— Henry David Thoreau

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

— Thomas de Quincey

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

— Ihara Saikaku

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

— Thomas Carlyle

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

— Blaise Pascal

The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

— David Hume

“Misfortunes seldom come alone.”

— Daniel Defoe

Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

— Abraham ibn Ezra

“Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer