Anna Neagle Quotes

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

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

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

I love being by myself.

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time.

I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself.

I'm pretty introverted and I spend a lot of time in books, a lot of time thinking and by myself, because that's what I enjoy to recharge.

I don't think people take enough time to themselves or like to be alone anymore, but it's really important.

When I am not acting or performing, I want to keep quiet and not to have a conversation.

Sometimes we all need a little time to decompress and think about stuff.

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.