Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

We must relearn to be alone.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

Solitude helps you reflect.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

I am ready to be alone.

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

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

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

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.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And I always say, 'No. No, all I ever write about is being alone, and sometimes that's a beautiful, beautiful thing.'

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.