Diana Gabaldon Quotes

I am lonely. I clean up the house, put kids to bed and there I sit.

I become a hermit when I am in Los Angeles and I don't leave my apartment at all from Monday through Thursday unless I have to and I don't get much sleep.

Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we have. In the gap, we experience loneliness. It's distinct from the objective state of isolation, which is determined by the number of people around you.

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.

Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.

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

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'

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

I don't belong to anyone.

You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.

I'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.

I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.

To be adult is to be alone.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

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

I don't care about a social life.

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

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

I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward.

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.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself. They represent the profound danger of growing so independent in New York that it's not merely that you don't need anyone - it's that you don't know how to need anyone.