Clare Balding Quotes

I don't like being alone.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

I had a fear of being alone.

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.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else.

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Being alone is very difficult.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

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.