Hermann Hesse Quotes

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

To be adult is to be alone.

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

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone.

I really do work in solitude.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I have always preferred to be alone and independent and lived according to that.

Being on your own sometimes is appealing.

I can be on my own.

People should just let me be.

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

I'm independent; I live by myself.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most 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.

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

We're all in this alone.

Remember we're all in this alone.

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

All we ask is to be let alone.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.