Terry Pratchett Quotes

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

I'm a loner. I like to hide a lot.

If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.

I really do work in solitude.

I'm a bit of a recluse, very fond of my own company.

… splendid isolation

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

I suppose we do live a pretty isolated life.

I love to be a hermit.

I can stay in my house for a week straight without seeing anyone.

I've always been a loner.

Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

I should like to be famous and unknown.

To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

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.

A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.