Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

I really like sort of disappearing.

I just love being in the middle of nowhere.

For me, being in a car listening to music has always been my one spot to think.

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

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.

One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.

Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything from my pack; I'd only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

Solitude is considered un-American.

It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.