Conor Oberst Quotes

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?

If we don't know how to be alone, we'll only know how to be lonely.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

I find running life quite hard, and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

You've got to be your own best friend.

It is nice to be social and have lots of friends. We need all that warmth and love. But at the end of the day, you need that one person to rely on and that should only be you.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.

I lay in bed at night by myself and I’m totally okay, and that’s so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didn’t have a boyfriend.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

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

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

As much I can stay away from people, I remain happy.