Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

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

When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.

Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

We live as we dream - alone.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go to the kitchen, and pour myself a whiskey. glass in hand, i'd look down at the darkened cemetary across teh way and the headlights of the cars on the road. the moments of time linking night and dawn were long and dark. if i could cry, it might make things easier. but what would i cry over? i was too self centered to cry for other people, too old to cry for myself.

I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

I am one who has been acquainted with the night

I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.