Quote by Joan Didion

“I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.”

— China Miéville

“I couldn't stand to be alone, yet I didn't want anyone to witness my dailiness, an indiscriminate collage of fragments, random encounters.”

— Dodie Bellamy

“At that time, when you thought, and I agreed, that I shouldn’t be alone, perhaps I really should have been alone,”

— Saul Bellow

“I didn’t mind being alone. Solitude and peace with oneself are probably the only preparation one has for death.”

— James Lee Burke

“When something bothered me, I didn’t talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took…

— Haruki Murakami

“Being alone gave me a chance to process what my senses took in without having to factor in other people’s opinions.”

— Carole King

“The thing about setting your life up so you could be completely alone was that you ended up completely alone.”

— Julie Lawson Timmer

“To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I was alone. In ways people aren't supposed to be alone.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I could accept my circumstances, my life, people, and even events around me, without giving my approval or releasing my control over such. I…

— Sharon E. Rainey

“I didn't know it was possible to be so alone in a world of people...”

— Cailah H

“Right now, the only person I could stand to be around was myself, and that was only because I had no say in the…

— Jessica Shirvington