Michael Crichton Quotes

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

Growing up in high school, I wasn't hanging out with friends every day or on the weekends. Doing normal high school kid things was something I was willing to give up.

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

Life is very long, when you're lonely.

Seclusion is the price of greatness.

It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.

When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"

It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .

You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.