Louise Fletcher Quotes

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

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

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive.

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

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

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.

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

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

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

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.