Quotes About Solitude

Who loves the world? The sleeper does

I have chosen this thing to do, away from my family, the doors closed, characters who form in my head and move to the paper, black symbols on a white sheet, no more than that.

If you want to write, you've got to shut yourself up in a room and write.

Are you happy by yourself?" "I'm used to it," he said. "That don't mean I like it.

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.

That has a funny sound, but I knew there was value in it for me, because the world left me alone, and I liked that. I liked my solitude, my individuality, being alone on the street. I had playmates, and we did plenty of things together, but there was this general feeling of singularity. When I would go downtown on my own, I wasn't chattering with a lot of people about, "look at this, look at that." My mind was doing all the processing.

Isn't it amazing how a kid can come out of all that analyzing everything incessantly down to the most infinitesimal neurosis and still be all alone?

Nobody run off with her," Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

As long as we have books, we are not alone.

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

They were alone on sixty-four million square miles of ocean. A month earlier

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books....The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.

Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people's company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

Fenwick, sitting down to

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

It's a night out of time and a time out of place.

On a day like today, there's no friend like a book.

Yo sin embargo pensaba en ti, que es lo que hago cuando no quiero pensar en nada.

Yo mientras tanto pensaba en ti, que es lo que hago cuando no quiero pensar en nada.