Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

I've always been someone who needs someone with them to poke and annoy. I'm useless at being by myself.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

We are always in our own company.

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

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

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.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.

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

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.