Scott Kelly Quotes

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often.

I could quarantine forever.

Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now." "All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.

My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two years, so I'm sure I must seem...a little crazy to you.

I feel like I've been shut in a closet, and he's on the other side, and he doesn't have the key to unlock the door.

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

Solitude was corrupting me.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.

THE ABANDONED VALLEY Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?