Mike Dirnt Quotes

The turtle couldn't help us.

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

Solitude is un-American.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

I've always been kind of a loner. Continue to be.

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

I don't need anyone else, which is a great feeling, but also a depressing one.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own.

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

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

I really do work in solitude.

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

I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who, when they're sick, like to curl up and remove myself. I don't like a lot of people around. There is nothing you can do to help.

I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

… splendid isolation

I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.

I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way.

I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.

I never get lonely; even as a child, I didn't.

I prefer to travel by jeep, because you can see everyone clearly, and everyone can see you. Also, people are not able to come close to you easily when you are in a jeep.