Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

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

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

The kind of solitude that refreshes and restores is very important, not just for children, not just for adolescents, but for all of us. If you don't teach your children how to be alone they will only be able to be lonely.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

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.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

I'm really honored that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I'm not in a hurry to go back to that temperature.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.