Quotes About Solitude

My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

When you die, trust me, the most difficult person to leave behind is yourself.

It would be that time--late at night-- when your ears reach out for any sound. When you can see more with your eyes closed than open.

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

The hardest blessing you give up is silence.

In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence.

You could choke on the silence.

With all of the seats empty, you could pretend everyone's just gone to the bathroom.

Ev­ery­one else I could call is dead.

Leggere non è un passatempo da comitiva. Non è come andare a vedere un film o assistere a un concerto. È il margine più solitario dello spettro.

Why are you alone? I mean, we are all alone. Aloneness is... that´s life. It´s the quality of our aloneness that matters.

Solitude is a natural place for a writer to be.

Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

My goldfish and me, both of us are just here swimming in one place.

With all the seats empty, you could pretend everyone's just gone to the bathroom.

The toughest detail to deal with was the loneliness.

The worst aspect of loneliness was the silence.

Te despiertas y no estas en ningún sitio.

He'd never anticipated that power would be this lonely.

Everyone's in their own personal coma. What

Podrías ahogarte con tanto silencio.