Alice Meynell Quotes

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the night went on, and clarinet and coyote call mingled beyond the lantern light, the magic of their own powder-blue jackets and orchids seemed to fade, and it came to them in small sensations that they were more alone than she was.

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

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

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

I was never less alone than when by myself.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

I really do work in solitude.

I need my time to be lonely.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

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

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.

As small as a world as large as alone.

One reads alone, even in another's presence.