Alice Sebold Quotes

People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

I really like sort of disappearing.

I'd rather be left to my own private life as much as be possible.

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

I want to be married and I want to be away from people.

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

I'm a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It's not like I'm varying my exposure.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

I'm a private person in many ways.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't have any servants.

I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.