Laurence Sterne Quotes

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

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

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

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.

I like my life alone.

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

I've lived so deep under masks, my interior was built to satisfy me alone - I have lived almost 60 years alone, mentally, and quite content to have it so.

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.

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.

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work 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.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

Alone I'm nothing.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Solitude is un-American.

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