Anna Neagle Quotes

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

I've realised that I actually like being by myself.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

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

I love being alone.

I have learnt to enjoy my own company because I have lived alone many years.

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

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being 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.

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.'

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

And I love working, that's my life. I'm a lonely person anyway. I don't like being around a load of people so I can work on myself and think.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.