Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.

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.

A writer needs a life of introspection.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

I think about my journey sometimes.

I find it quite useful to be alone when I'm making music, but also in general, in life.

My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

Some walks you have to take alone.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

I have no choice sometimes, but there's something about being alone. When I'm alone I might not speak for 24 hours, but you're totally seeing things. It's a pretty cool experience.

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

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

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.