Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

I've always kind of lived in my own world.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

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.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

The writer is all alone.

I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed.

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

I really do work in solitude.

I'm someone who just likes being in my cave and thinking up weird stuff.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows.

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

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.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

I need, absolutely, to be alone.