Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes

... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.

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

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

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

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

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.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

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

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

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.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

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

Sometimes I think you'll be fine by yourself Cause a dream is a wish you make all alone; It's easy to feel like you don't need help, But it's harder to walk on your own.

So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.

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