Michael Finkel Quotes

I just like to be alone sometimes and think.

Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that. Maybe I've been a runner my whole life.

We must relearn to be alone.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

By all means use some time to be alone.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

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

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on.

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

I'm a person who takes baths in the dark, 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.

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.

But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision that I make: to make sure that I spend time just with myself, and really times of silence and mediation to go through that process; and music is a big part of that as well.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

I have no choice sometimes, but there's something about being alone. When I'm alone I might not speak for 24 hours, but you're totally seeing things. It's a pretty cool experience.

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