Portia de Rossi Quotes

We must relearn to be alone.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

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

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

I am never less alone than when alone.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

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

I don't know when I'll ever get a chance to be all alone in a film.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

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.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

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

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

I love the process of being alone in a room.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace