Solitary Life Quotes

“To choose to be alone is to bait the trap, to create a space the demons cannot resist entering. And that's the good news; the demons that enter can be named, written about, and tamed through the miracle of the healing word, the miracle of art, the miracle of silence.”
― Fenton Johnson, At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life

“My dreams are crowded with people, as though to compensate for the solitariness of my waking hours.”
― Anna Lyndsey, Girl in the Dark

“Sanitized, cleaned, my house was a mausoleum and the ghost it housed was me.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Ellipsis

“Perhaps if my mother had been a witch like me with powers of her own, she would have taken me under her wing and guided me on my singular path. But she did not, and I was left to discover what made me different on my own, stumbling and groping along.”
― Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

“It´s a sin how happy I can be living alone like a hermit.”
― Jack Kerouac, Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

“I see the advantages to being newly single every day!”
― Steven Magee