James Russell Lowell Quotes

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.

I don't like being left to my own thoughts.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

I need to stay busy. Otherwise, I am like so many people, alone with my thoughts, and I can be my own worst enemy.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.

There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

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

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

I think too much.

If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.

Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane.