Lemmy Quotes

I really do work in solitude.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

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

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.

I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.

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'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

I always have been a private person. I like to be alone. When I was a little girl I used to listen to the radio and just be by myself.

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

I'm a loner. I kind of like to be alone and do my work and, you know, be focused on my own things.

I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I have always preferred to be alone and independent and lived according to that.

I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

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