Brandon Boyd Quotes

It’s just me against the world.

You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what “fair” meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you.

The strong must learn to be lonely.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

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

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

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

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

I'm blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn't have many pictures.

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.

It's not easy living alone but I've done it before.

I grew up as a man because I was by myself.

Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.