Being Alone

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Adolescents show off. That's another way of wanting to connect with people. It's not an aspect of human behavior that we generally consider to be very admirable, but it is, in some way, a means of connecting with someone else and not being alone.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

I don't like being alone.

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.