Gail Honeyman Quotes

I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.

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.

For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city.

When I think about sex it makes me realise how alone I feel.

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

You are alone with everything you love.

It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.

I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up feeling lonely when you are with someone else. Some people would be better off alone, but they feel they've got to get hold of someone to prove they're worthwhile.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.

Marriage will not solve "aloneness."

I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts.

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.

When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.