Stefan Zweig Quotes

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

I'm a loner. I kind of like to be alone and do my work and, you know, be focused on my own things.

I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

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

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

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.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

The only thing that's better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of thing by yourself as a solo artist. But it's cool. It's worth it.

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

I prefer to live in my own little bubble of my own reality.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

I really do work in solitude.

Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.