Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

I hate holidays because it's the quietest; it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.

No one to hear, you might as well scream.

Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything from my pack; I'd only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

In times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.

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

I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.

I was living alone, so I'd get quite lonely and running became a way to combat my loneliness and de-stress.

I need to stay busy. Otherwise, I am like so many people, alone with my thoughts, and I can be my own worst enemy.

We lock ourselves away and we concentrate on what we're doing and try not to think about the madness that's surrounding it, and all the hype.