Panos Cosmatos Quotes

In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness.

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

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

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability.

I was alone more than most kids.

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

I've locked myself in my room and wanted to be on my own a lot in my career, but I don't do that anymore.

When you're living a lie, the scariest thing is to be alone with your thoughts.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.