#alone

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#himself #long #man #only

To live alone is the fate of all great souls. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#fate #great #great souls #live #souls

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#amateur #any #became #compose #did

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#city #could #days #extraordinary #find

I don't like being in houses alone. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#being #houses #i #like

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#alone #anything #been #good #happening

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. ↗

— Walter Scott

#alone #companions #doubly #feel #gone

I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book. ↗

— Vin Scully

#book #cherish #good #good book #i

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#alone #brother #brother and sister #day #dead

I meddled in things that man must leave alone. ↗

— R. C. Sherriff

#i #leave #man #must #things