Ralph Ellison Quotes

In order to travel far you have to be detached.

I love single life! Why would it be boring? I mean, I get to travel around and have loads of girls screaming at me, so it's definitely not boring. However, it can get lonely on the road, but I'm sorted I've got good people around me.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in your own little world.

Being on the road is kind of lonely.

I'd love to go to a remote part of the world or maroon myself on a tropical island, and shoot the whole thing myself. I've always adventured with other people and I'd like to spend some time completely on my own.

I don't know if this is because I'm a bit too old, but it is true that I'm getting insensible about romance recently. I'm very used to being alone now, and I don't think that's not half bad.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more.

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

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

Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

I don't feel lonely. No no no. I feel like I'm jumping in a well that has no bottom, and at some point I know I'll hit bottom. I never put a time limit on it. I'm oblivious to anything except that which I'm doing.

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone. sitting up in my bed the lights out, hearing the outside sounds, lifting my cheap bottle of wine, letting the warmth of the grape enter me as I heard the rats moving about the room, I preferred them to humans. being lost, being crazy maybe is not so bad if you can be that way undisturbed. New Orleans gave me that. nobody ever called my name.

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.

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

I'm so high, it's so lonely up here