Carlos Castaneda Quotes

I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

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

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

I owe my solitude to other people.

I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.

A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

I was more alone than if I had been alone.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.

He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet. But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred.

He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.

The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.