I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.
Catalog
Quotes tagged ‘Alone’
I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.
And I have only myself. The way it had always been and probably always would be.
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
...what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
I know I’m still young and there’s a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that’s wrong, that I’m not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I’ll always just be alone.
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
People don’t always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
He loved her. He loved her, and until he’d loved her…she had never minded being alone.
You taught me how to be alone. And I learned my lesson, in your absence.
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
Solitude was corrupting me.
I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it’s my head I’m locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
It’s only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
You gave everything to everyone. Except to me.
Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, for she considered love a serious disability.
Your heart will become a dusty piano in the basement of a church and she will play you when no one is looking. Now you understand why it’s called an organ.
I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.