John Stuart Mill Quotes

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

Never having alone time is real tough on people.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.

I'm anti-social, and I don't have too many friends. I'm in my own world doing my own things - training in martial arts, dancing, or watching a Michael Jackson video.

The less people know about you, the more you understand how beautiful life is. It's good when you exist only on screen. I don't want them to take me home. I love to have my privacy.

I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.

At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

I am alone with the masses.

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.

What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it to myself. It's a bit bizarre.