Gavin O'Connor Quotes

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

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

True individuality can be lonely.

There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.

The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

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

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

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

All my friends were cheerleaders, and I was the girl who hung out at home. I just worked on my music all the time.

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.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

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'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.