Paul Gauguin Quotes

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

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

I really do work in solitude.

I've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

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.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

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

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

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

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Solitude is independence.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

We're all in this alone.

Remember we're all in this alone.

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

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

My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.