Desire Quote by Marcel Proust

“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 joy of living alone meant I could please myself and not have to worry about the sensitivities of others.”

— Rebecca Bradley

“Besides, I was myself the one who spoke to me. I sat and stood at the same time, hushed and spoke and formed two…

— Robert Walser

“Suddenly I'm as if cast out, and this solitude surrounds me as something vast and unbounded, when my feeling, standing on the hills of…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need…

— Virginia Woolf

“I suffered with a desire to be alone, unfortunately coupled with an intolerance of others.”

— Jon Richardson

“When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer---say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal,…

— Mozart

“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need…

— Virginia Woolf

“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I moved through the world like a team of runaway horses in the hands of an obsessed and demented driver. But I was already…

— Bohumil Hrabal

“I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied…

— Albert Camus

“I’d felt so many things since our journey began—joy, fear, hope, horror—but until now, I’d never once felt alone.”

— Ransom Riggs