“What does an introvert do when he s left alone? He stays alone.”
“What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”
“It s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
“I think it s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
“I have to be alone very often. I d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That s how I refuel. (Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953)”
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don t want to make eye contact while doing it. [Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
“And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.”
“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”
“But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”
“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”
“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
“Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain.”
“I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.”