Brendan Dooling Quotes

We must relearn to be alone.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

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

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult.

Solitude is the profoundest fact

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

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

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

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.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.

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