Max Stirner Quotes

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.

French children seem to be able to play by themselves in a way.

I can entertain myself for hours.

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while - that's how they learn to be creative.

I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.

If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.

I have severe ADD, and I'm constantly looking to amuse myself.

If I was always doing my own thing, I would be bored out of my mind.

I don't tend to get lonely as there are so many things to do.

Even when I'm at home, I keep to myself - skateboarding, riding bikes, and stuff in the house.

So what if nobody came? I’ll have all the ice cream and tea, And I’ll laugh with myself, And I’ll dance with myself, And I’ll sing, “Happy Birthday to me!

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now...besides, no one treats me as well as I do.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.

What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.