Macaulay Culkin Quotes

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

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

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

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.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

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.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

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 live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.

I've lived so deep under masks, my interior was built to satisfy me alone - I have lived almost 60 years alone, mentally, and quite content to have it so.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

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

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

I was alone more than most kids.

I've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.

Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.

I guess I've been existing in my own head a lot.

I've locked myself in my room and wanted to be on my own a lot in my career, but I don't do that anymore.

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.