R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

I think I should be here alone to rethink the world - I do. I want these lesser humans gone.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

Eventually, we all end up alone.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

We live as we dream - alone.

What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.

As small as a world as large as alone.

That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

Every man is grave alone.

I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

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

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.

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.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.