Martha Gellhorn Quotes

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Solitude is independence.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

All we ask is to be let alone.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

I don't belong to anyone.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

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

I don't have anybody living around me who has much of a sense of what I do. That's exactly what I like.

People should just let me be.

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

To be free is often to be lonely.

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened - good, bad, or anywhere in between - it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.