Janet Erskine Stuart Quotes

What remains is solitude.

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

We must relearn to be alone.

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.

I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.

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.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

I really do work in solitude.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

It's lonely up here.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.