Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

I like to have space.

I love my bro, but not always being with him is good for us.

My husband loves having his own room.

I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.

Relationships, like eyebrows, are better when there is space between them.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.

It isn't love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own life.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.

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

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

I think it's very useful to be insulated from your surrounds, because it gives you your inviolate privacy, without pressures, so that you can just be yourself.

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.