Thomas McGuane Quotes

I was never less alone than when by myself.

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

I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.

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've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

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

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.

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.

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

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

I like being by myself.

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 really do work in solitude.

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.

I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own.

My 'aloneness' is extremely valuable to me.

I love being alone.

I've got no problem being on my own. I like the way my imagination works.

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.

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.