George Gissing Quotes

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

We're all in this alone.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.

I really do work in solitude.

I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

I don't have anybody living around me who has much of a sense of what I do. That's exactly what I like.

I've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

All human beings are lonely at the core. We come alone, we go alone.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.