Roald Dahl Quotes

Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything from my pack; I'd only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

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

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

I just want to be on my own branch twittering.

I really like sort of disappearing.

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

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

I don't want anybody guarding me. I want to be free; I want to be left alone... I would like to go out there and have no one know me, but at the same time, it would bother me, y'know.

I just wanted to have a private life.

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.

I just want to be left alone.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

People should just let me be.

The less people know about you, the more you understand how beautiful life is. It's good when you exist only on screen. I don't want them to take me home. I love to have my privacy.

I don't know when I'll ever get a chance to be all alone in a film.

You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me.

One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic

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

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

She sleeps alone at last.