Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

Eventually, we all end up alone.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

I genuinely believed no one would want to marry me. I am difficult to live with. I'm selfish, quite weird and I need time on my own to think - and then I work all night long. That is difficult for someone to deal with. And it would drive me mad - I could never be my own girlfriend!

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

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

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

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.

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.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

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.

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

The woman over 50 must be very frank with herself.