Claudia Rankine Quotes

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

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

I suppose that there are many novels that are set during the summer because it's a lonely time of year. Friends come and go, comfort comes and goes, which makes it a perfect time of year to indulge in melancholia.

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

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

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.

I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I think I should be here alone to rethink the world - I do. I want these lesser humans gone.

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

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.

Don't like small talk, love rainy days.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

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

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

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.