“I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.”– Mary Oliver Related Quotes “No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.”– Martha Beck “We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.”– Jean de la Bruyere “Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.”– Keith Richards