Caroline Knapp Quotes

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And I always say, 'No. No, all I ever write about is being alone, and sometimes that's a beautiful, beautiful thing.'

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

I love the process of being alone in a room.

Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

Silence is best.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

By all means use some time to be alone.

You only grow when you are alone.