Courtney Barnett Quotes

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

I am a loner so I prefer traveling alone.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.

I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

I like to travel by myself.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.

I have traveled the world by myself.

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It's a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.

The only time I travelled solo was when I did a 40-day trip visiting America for the first time.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.

My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation.

A motorcycle is an independent thing.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

I'm quite happy trekking around Greenland on my own, but those big book tours in America or the Far East are the only time I ever really feel lonely.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.