Charles L. Allen Quotes

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

I don't care about a social life.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

It's lonely up here.

And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

I could picture life—school and everything else—continuing on without me. But I could not picture my funeral. Not at all. Mostly because I couldn’t imagine who would attend or what they would say.

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

It will be a lonelier life than I have ever known before.

... unspeakably lonely.

… splendid isolation

When he is alone in a room, there is nobody there.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

I am lonely. I clean up the house, put kids to bed and there I sit.

All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.