Christopher Morley Quotes

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Your car goes where your eyes go. Lonliness is unable to survive without a willing host.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.

The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.

It used to be when you eat, you eat with people. But instant noodles are so instant that people eat by themselves. And it's a very convenient way of eating but also a very lonely way of eating.

I get lonely - I'm not going to lie about that... I kind of signed up in my mind that I'm giving myself wholeheartedly, full-throttle to my creative life, and I don't want to be distracted.

I don't tend to get lonely as there are so many things to do.

My favorite food is the food I eat by myself.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.

Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.