Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I'm never lonely.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

I always have been a private person. I like to be alone. When I was a little girl I used to listen to the radio and just be by myself.

I could go days, weeks, without talking to another human being.

I'm quite a loner. I realized that I'm very introverted, and I get energy by being alone instead of being with other people.

I actually like spending time alone - it doesn't bother me at all.

Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.

I feel better when I am not around people. When I am alone, alone, alone.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

I don't really hang out with people. I like to be by myself. In fact, I've been arrested a few times because I like to walk around at two or three in the morning, looking at shop windows. The cops take me to the station and fingerprint me. But I wouldn't call that hanging out.

As much I can stay away from people, I remain happy.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

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.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.