Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

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

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

We are always in our own company.

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

By myself walking, To myself talking.

I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.

People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

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

I am never less alone than when alone.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

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

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 paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I was never less alone than when by myself.