Marya Mannes Quotes

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

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.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

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

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

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

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

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.

When a man is extremely lonely, he starts discovering himself.

My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

We must relearn to be alone.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

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

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

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.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.