Agnes Varda Quotes

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

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

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.

We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

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

I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.

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

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too is good. Or can be made good. One must still try to find the Way.

I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

I am happiest in the brush and by myself - whether that's the woods of northern Minnesota or the wilds of Alaska behind a dogteam, picking through the foothills of the mountains by my ranch in New Mexico on horseback, or on the ship of my sailboat on the Pacific - so I guess it made sense to me that both Brian and Samuel would find their challenges and adventures, if that's what you call them, in the woods.

I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.

Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.

Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.