Syd Quotes

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

I love being alone.

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

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

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.

I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.

I love being by myself.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

I like being by myself.

I've got no problem being on my own. I like the way my imagination works.

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

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 a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

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.

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

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

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 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.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

I enjoy my time alone.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.