Jane Austen Quotes

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back.

I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

Solitude may rust your words.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I was never less alone than when by myself.