Nick Yarris Quotes

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

Isolation must precede true society.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.