Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

Solitude is independence.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.

To be adult is to be alone.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

I don't care about a social life.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

I really do work in solitude.

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.

We behave as if being alone were a problem.

It sounds lonely being Bob Dylan, because Bob Dylan likes being around other Bob Dylans, and there are not many other Bob Dylans around.

I think a large part of being human centers on the state of being alone, and we try to mitigate that in so many ways.