Roberto Bolano Quotes

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

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 song 'Wolf Eyes,' I wrote because I felt like I was such a kitten. I want to be more of a wolf. I want to be stronger and more independent. I sort of wrote the song for that.

Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

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.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.