Kami Garcia Quotes

Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.

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

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

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

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

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.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

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.

It will be a lonelier life than I have ever known before.