Frank Vincent Quotes

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

I've realised that I actually like being by myself.

I've learned that I need to appreciate time by myself and that I don't need a partner to complete me.

I was quite a different child, I felt isolated. In time, that level of being with yourself crystallises who you are, and you can see what other people are without being blinded by what they want from you.

True individuality can be lonely.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

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

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

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.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

La Masia is a place where lots of people live together but you are on your own.

I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.