Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

The thought of being alone when time goes on is a little bit scary sometimes, but not really.

Frightening things happen in solitude.

Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

Being alone is very difficult.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.