Roseanne Barr Quotes

Every man is grave 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.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

We must relearn to be alone.

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

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

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

What I'm interested in is human beings alone.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

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.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And I always say, 'No. No, all I ever write about is being alone, and sometimes that's a beautiful, beautiful thing.'

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

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