Paulo Coelho Quotes

If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

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

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

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.

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

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.

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.

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

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

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

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

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

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

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

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.