Edie Brickell Quotes

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.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

True individuality can be lonely.

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

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

Farewell, my friend," Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.

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.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

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.

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.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.