Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

I'm very to myself.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

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

I treasure my privacy.

Everybody is their own galaxy, their own separate entity.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.

As small as a world as large as alone.

[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

Imagination is something you do alone.

How in the world was I alone? Because I wanted to be. That's all I can say. It's all that makes sense to me.

Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.