Russell Smith Quotes

I think I should be here alone to rethink the world - I do. I want these lesser humans gone.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

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.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

What I'm interested in is human beings alone.

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

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.

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found in Mesopotamia and China mention people living alone in the woods. It's this primal fascination that exists across all cultures and all times.

All human beings are lonely at the core. We come alone, we go alone.

Every man is grave alone.

I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.

I drink alone. Yeah, with nobody else. You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. and they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.

I love that I'm alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don't like solitude.

Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well - that the individual condition of each is tragic. Each of us is alone: sometimes we escape from solitariness, through love or affection or perhaps creative moments, but those triumphs of life are pools of light we make for ourselves while the edge of the road is black: each of us dies alone.

And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.