Dave Davies Quotes

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

I don't like being in houses alone.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

Being alone is very difficult.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

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 never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.

I don't like being alone.

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

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

I had a fear of being alone.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.

One of my biggest fears is thinking that there are people in my house when I'm home alone.

The thought of being alone when time goes on is a little bit scary sometimes, but not really.