Louis Sachar Quotes

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

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 like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

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.

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.