George Harrison Quotes

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

I now walk into the wild.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

I like to have space.

In California, you can stretch your arms out and not be touching another person. You get space, sun and, in general, dignity.

I don't know when I'll ever get a chance to be all alone in a film.

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.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

In my books, there are a lot of people stuck in rooms. Or, conversely, out in the wide open. It seems that, in a funny way, when people are cooped up in rooms they are freer than when they are wandering about in the world.

I think it's very useful to be insulated from your surrounds, because it gives you your inviolate privacy, without pressures, so that you can just be yourself.

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

I think that occasionally running away and crashing where people can't find you is important.

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.

Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

I prize the privilege of being alone.