Rory MacLean Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.

I've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.

Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.

I love being alone.

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

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

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.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.