Freya Ridings Quotes

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

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 like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

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

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

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

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

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

I think that all the time I lived alone changed me.

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

I think it took us being apart to really understand... who we were as Individuals, outside of the Go-Go's.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

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

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

I am ready to be alone.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

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.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

Know yourself to improve yourself.