Henry Miller Quotes

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

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

People should just let me be.

Solitude is independence.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

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

All we ask is to be let alone.

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

I don't belong to anyone.

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

I really do work in solitude.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

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.

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 need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

I like my space.

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

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.