Nick Hornby Quotes

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

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.

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 was never less alone than when by myself.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.