Questlove Quotes

He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

I am alone, as though I stood On the highest peak of the tired gray world,About me only swirling snow, Above me, endless space unfurled;With earth hidden and heaven hidden, And only my own spirit's prideTo keep me from the peace of those Who are not lonely, having died.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.

Words are loneliness.

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.

When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping.

All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash this morning, and omitted to put out another. I have no towel.

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

What remains is solitude.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

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

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

To be honest, I hate silence.

The 'Burials' title really speaks to all the different levels that are on the record. It speaks to silence and panic and anxiety and loss of self and isolation and those different levels of hiding.

If the room falls silent for a moment, all I hear is white noise.