Edward Hoagland Quotes

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

I'm no Thoreau.

I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own.

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Solitude is un-American.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

Some people do better on their own. I don't.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.