Caitlin Flanagan Quotes

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

As an actor, I am always in one character or the other and get very little time to be Nana Patekar. So whenever I can, I love to be alone and by myself. That way, I get time to think and introspect.

My solo music started as a way to really look inwards, and to spend time completely by myself with an instrument, without any outside dialogue.

I've never been a confessional writer.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

Keeping a diary supports personal development.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

I have no choice sometimes, but there's something about being alone. When I'm alone I might not speak for 24 hours, but you're totally seeing things. It's a pretty cool experience.

I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.

My diary seems to keep me whole.

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.

Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.