Alexander Theroux Quotes

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

It's no fun being lonely.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

… splendid isolation

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.

I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.

I just want to be left alone.

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

I suppose we do live a pretty isolated life.

Lis and I didn't talk for a year. I was in a relationship that wasn't good for me. I became isolated. I had nobody anymore, I only had my relationship.

There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.