Horace Quotes

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

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.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire to escape and find something or someone to keep us company. When we can rest in the middle, we begin to have a nonthreatening relationship with loneliness, a relaxing and cooling loneliness that completely turns our usual fearful patterns upside down.

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

I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.

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 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.

Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane.

We must relearn to be alone.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

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.

Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.