Jeremy Collier Quotes

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

I always have my books for company.

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

If you have a book, you have a friend.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub.

I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.