Jackson Browne Quotes

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

From birth to death we are alone.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

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.

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

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

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.

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

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

Some walks you have to take alone.

When I'm all alone, nobody else can say goodbye.

Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

True individuality can be lonely.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

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

Solitude is independence.