Merrill Markoe Quotes

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, / He travels the fastest who travels alone.

I love being alone.

There's so many nice things about being single; you have yourself really present with you like 100 percent.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

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

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

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

I like to make my own mistakes.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

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

I don't belong to anyone.

I like being by myself.

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who, when they're sick, like to curl up and remove myself. I don't like a lot of people around. There is nothing you can do to help.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.