Barry Jenkins Quotes

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

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've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.

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.

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

Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

I love being by myself.

I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.

People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single.

I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

I enjoy my time alone.

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

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

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.

I need my time to be lonely.

I love being alone.

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.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.