Alain Robert Quotes

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.

So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

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

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

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.

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

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

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Nobody knows me.