Bill Medley Quotes

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

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

There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.

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

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.

I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

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

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

I've been so in my moment about my life.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

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.