Winnie Byanyima Quotes

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

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

I like being by myself.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.

Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.

I love being alone.

I am ready to be alone.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

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.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

I love being by myself.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

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.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

I enjoy my time alone.