Susanna Kaysen Quotes

So it is necessary that we should learn to be 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.

I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.

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've realised that I actually like being by myself.

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

I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.

I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

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

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.

I liked roaming around by myself.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

I like to travel by myself.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

I love going to movies by myself.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, / He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I am a loner so I prefer traveling alone.

I love being alone.

I find it quite useful to be alone when I'm making music, but also in general, in life.

I did my solo thing for a while and got that out of my system.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.