Benjamin Clementine Quotes

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation.

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

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

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

All I want is to be left alone to write my books.

I spent one year being very poor at home with my piano, and nobody was calling me, but I had space to think about things on my own and find out exactly what I wanted to do.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.