Samuel Johnson Quotes

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

In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.

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

Being down makes you think who you are.

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.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

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

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

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

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

I have learnt to enjoy my own company because I have lived alone many years.

My journey to working on loneliness was certainly not an expected one or planned one.

Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our actions as our only way of self-identifiction, then we become possessive and defensive and tend to look at our fellow human beings more as enemies to be kept at a distance than as friends with whom we share the gifts of life.

I am ready to be alone.

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.