Emo Philips Quotes

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.

My social life is much better, since I stopped spending it with other people.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

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.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

I always have been a private person. I like to be alone. When I was a little girl I used to listen to the radio and just be by myself.

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

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

I might have sung party numbers, but I love to party alone.

I'd rather be left to my own private life as much as be possible.

I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.

I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I'm never lonely.

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.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

I feel better when I am not around people. When I am alone, alone, alone.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

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.

As much I can stay away from people, I remain happy.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

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