“We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.”– Jean de la Bruyere Related Quotes “What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.”– Hermann Broch “Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.”– Ferdinand Marcos “The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone – and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone – at night. That’s the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it’s also where the title came from for the book.”– Paul Kane