R. Kelly Quotes

Artists walk alone.

She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

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

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

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.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.

The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.

The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them... and royally squander their lives with her.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.

I just really remember the feeling of being a younger comedian who was kind of an outlier for being experimental and weird and how that could feel lonely or hopeless.

My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence.