Cheryl Strayed Quotes

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

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 want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw.

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.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.

At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.

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

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

I prize the privilege of being alone.